The Relationship Between R&D Expenditure and Gdp in Turkey

In the development process of globalization occurring in the national economy it has an important role of R & D spending. Most countries in the world by combining outstanding R & D technology has come to the innovation process. In the study, the existence of the relationship between AR-GE expenditures and GDP was tried to be proved to be linear. In this context, AR-GE expenditures and GDP data generated between 1998 and 2015 are considered. In line with the aims of the study. In conclusion; made with R & D expenditure in Turkey was determined to be linear and one-way relationship between GDP. R & D spending in the causality test results were found to be the cause of the GDP. In other words, the increase in R & D spending led to positive growth on GDP, decrease causes a decrease in the GDP