I have translated your article regarding the philosophy of innovation and the essence of R&D into professional English, maintaining your specific formatting and narrative tone.

Innovation can be defined as the entirety of the processes of finding a new or easier way for a job or service, developing a system, or providing solutions by manufacturing products. While it has become a global trend over the last 20 years and a national inclination for us over the last 10, it is naturally a term of foreign origin.

If one were to seek a Turkish equivalent, it could be called “kolaylama” (facilitation/making easier). This is because the primary goal of innovation is to develop a process or product to simplify an existing problem. In other words, although it has entered our agenda as a trend in the last few years, its existence since the beginning of the world is undeniable.

In my opinion, the greatest innovation is the wheel. Perhaps the discovery of fire changed many things in human history much earlier, but the wheel system can be considered a turning point in modern life in terms of expressing speed. However, isn’t the wheel a rather simple example for the terms “Innovation” and “R&D,” which are so beloved by the younger generation because they are equated with making a lot of money quickly?

Of course, it is very simple, and it fits perfectly with the phrase “I swear, I thought of that too,” famously uttered by the character Deli Emin in the movie Vizontele. But that is not the reality of the matter; the word “innovation” fits this work perfectly. R&D and innovation are done to simplify an existing problem, and although the wheel seems very simple once it is made and conceptualized, it is a complete innovation.

There is a story I came across on a social media account today: a toothpaste manufacturer’s prestige was shaken because it packed a significant number of empty boxes on the production line. They immediately invested 18 million USD in a system that used a weight sensor to detect empty boxes, stopping the line so an official could resolve the issue before production continued. Within a few weeks, the signal for empty boxes dropped to zero; neither were empty boxes packed, nor did the production line signal any errors. Naturally, the manager went to the foreman and asked why they were no longer receiving signals even though the problem had vanished. The foreman replied: “Sir, our apprentice placed this fan here, and the empty boxes are simply blown off the belt. We solved the problem without stopping the production line.” This describes exactly what innovation is.

As an R&D engineer who has received the “Inventor of Bursa” award, I remind my young friends that Innovation and R&D are not just about producing chips. I look at all my university-student friends and observe that almost everyone wants to be an R&D engineer. But I want them to understand that in their dream Industry 4.0 systems—where robots talk and humans are absent—they themselves are not needed; they would only be able to replace the parts of those products.

For years, I have witnessed engineers who did nothing look down on and criticize those of us who actually perform R&D and innovation. Their criticism was along the lines of, “Brother, the product he makes contains only 10-15 TL worth of circuit components; you could make it at home yourself.” I struggled with people who were unaware they were putting themselves in a very difficult position. After all, if you look at the physical cost, the operating system of the computer they sit in front of every day doesn’t even have the cost of a CD anymore. But was writing, protecting, and marketing that operating system free?

Long story short, if we translate the meaning of innovation and R&D into Turkish as “facilitation” (making things easier), we will truly be able to produce. We will not be ashamed of what we produce, and the products we take pride in may one day make people’s lives easier and make us billionaires…

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