Hıstorıcal Development of Automotıve Industry at Indıa and Turkey and The Formatıon of Innovative Company*

When we look at the historical development of the automotive industry of India and Turkey, we find many common features and similarities. We can say that most similar ones originated from the economic policies. However, both in the 1920s which started the production of automobile with assembly method two country‟s automotive industry historical development process from each other different aspects, India‟s production volume had been provided to pass substantlly Turkey‟s be said. India and Turkey has a similiar historical past and heritage and automotive industries in both countries has started to occur at the end of the year 1920 in similiar ways. Turkey economic policies and incentive system was not encourage enough mediated by the development of the automotive industry. The automotive industry in India has continued to develop more rapıdly, gaining momentum especially with the changes in the economic policy towards liberalization in the 1990s. Turkey has begun to practice liberal economic policies with the removal of foreign tade protection, but the removable of foreign trade protection in the automotive industry became posible after with the inauguration of the Custom Union apply with European Union in 1994. However, since a structure for technological development could not be established, in the 1990s, the automotive industry almost embraced a structure that only foreign companies could manufacture and export. Thus, we can say that the automotive industry has turned into the production base of foreign companies. Turkey entered the 2000s to the automotive industry by increasing the production and export, 2000s gradually amended the trends of economic policy local automobile production in the automotive industry has taken the decision. However in a way that is linked to the new policy, Uzel an innovative company with the potantial to produce local products in the automotive industry, has been confused in a sense. Because the company Uzel be completely stopping production in Turkey in the 2010s, it had taken over production and the decision to continue in the Netherlands and about a year after Uzel has succesed to produce first local tractor. India, on the other hand, with the application of economic liberalization policy in the 1990s. On the one hand, we can say that while encouraging foreign companies to produce in their country, on the other hand, it enabled the emergence of innovative companies.