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The objective of the Smart Economic Planning and Industrial Policy (SEPIP) Conference is to bring together researchers, practitioners, regulators, and policy makers from the globe with a view to share results of academic studies, exchange views, share experiences and discuss fresh ideas on industrial policy, economic planning, and related contemporary tools to support economic development and national competitiveness.

SEPIP is organized by OSTİM Technical University and it aims at developing a platform that enables participants to discuss economic development at national and regional levels and the role of industrial policy and planning; to compare early theoretical and practical motivations for national development planning with those now emerging in the globalized world economy; to present real-world experiences in industrial policy and planning by international scholars with firsthand experience; to discuss new tools and approaches to development such as physical infrastructure planning, industrial policy and cluster policy.

The first SEPIP conference, held on 4 May 2014, attracted great interest and there was a wide range of attendance with international speakers from USA and Europe to Singapore and Korea including academicians as well as policy makers and practitioners.

The main theme of SEPIP 2021 Conference was entitled "Varieties of Industrialization". The spread of agro-industrialization along with the newly agriculturizing economies (NAEs); New sources of productivity linkages across industry and high technology services; Can a services-led industrialization be a new opportunity for the developing world? Or is it a farce? Varieties of industrialization pathways across time and space; Is there a certain type of successful industrialization? Premature deindustrialization in the world; What are the relationships between varieties of industrialization and varieties of capitalism which has been a trending topic in economics literature in the last decade? What are the effects of main choices of macroeconomic policy in a given country on its industrialization process? Does the policy set of Washington Consensus contribute or not, to the industrialization process of developing countries? Or does it trigger deindustrialization? How does its imposition result after four decades of its hegemony? Translation of a country's experience of industrialization to other countries; The Political Economy of Industrialization, Sustainable Industrial Development, Capital-intensive vs labor-intensive industrialization were among the topics discussed at the conference.

Uniting the actors on a common ground in order to strengthen the cooperation between developed and developing countries, public institutions and organizations, universities, non-governmental organizations and the private sector, various prominent speakers took part on this platform and discussed the impact of the epidemic on their countries’ economies, experiences in technology, innovation, and industry.