It is an important part of our company vision that ASELSAN's leadership in the defense industry inspires innovative activities in the ecosystem and that the innovative ideas of stakeholders in the ecosystem are implemented together. Hence, the Innovation Vision of ASELSAN is to maintain the sustainable growth of our company, to support the protection of its competitiveness, to ensure the highest level of innovation capability in order to reinforce its technological leadership, and to make the innovation culture an important element of our company.
ASELSAN, which won the first place in the "Turkey's Top 250 Companies with the Highest R&D Expenditure" research in 2021, is in an important position in R&D studies in our country's defense industry with its qualified, strong and agile staff consisting of more than 5000 R&D personnel. There are eight ASELSAN R&D Centers in different campuses, and extensive R&D activities are carried out with the infrastructure facilities in these centers.
Our Research Center, which is one of these R&D centers, continues its basic research studies on advanced and groundbreaking technologies in a wide area ranging from artificial intelligence to autonomy, from photonics to metamaterials, from biodefense to quantum technologies, in order to carry our country and ASELSAN forward with the aim of "Direction of Technology".
More informationIt is an important part of our company vision that ASELSAN's leadership in the defense industry inspires innovative activities in the ecosystem and that the innovative ideas of stakeholders in the ecosystem are implemented together. Hence, the Innovation Vision of ASELSAN is to maintain the sustainable growth of our company, to support the protection of its competitiveness, to ensure the highest level of innovation capability in order to reinforce its technological leadership, and to make the innovation culture an important element of our company.
According to the research "R&D 250, Top R&D Spending Companies in Turkey" published by Turkishtime in 2021, the company with the highest R&D Spend in 2020 was ASELSAN with 3,356,327,355 TL. According to the results of the same research, ASELSAN became the leader of Turkey and the champion of R&D 250 with 1117 female personnel employed in the R&D Center. With 5,264 undergraduate and graduate experts working in R&D, the company has been seen to be at the top in expert human resources, just as it is in expenditures. Another remarkable feature of ASELSAN is that the second company after it has nearly twice as many undergraduate and graduate personnel. ASELSAN has achieved leadership in the following categories according to 2020 data:
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