ABSTRACT
This chapter studies how Turkish re-migrants contribute to the transfer of knowledge from Germany to Turkey, shedding some light on those interlinked causal factors that allow Turkey’s current economy to boom, both in manufacturing and services. The chapter starts from the assumption that Turkish re-migrants returning from Germany or other Western European countries help to improve the level of skills and competences in Turkish labour markets thus helping Turkey to development its industry from low to medium tech. Because knowledge, once generated is only imperfectly spilling over spatially, capabilities to generate and absorb both codified and tacit new knowledge is unevenly distributed among countries and regions worldwide.
