Turkey's Biggest Incubation Facility, "YTU Yildiz Kulucka" (Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul - Incubation Facility) has been Opened The facility at which the projects which will shape Turkey's future will be developed is indeed going to meet the requirements of entrepreneurs with tech-based, innovative projects.
Yildiz Kulucka' (Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul - Incubation Facility), at which the projects which will shape Turkey's future will be developed opened with a ceremony at the Davutpasa Campus of Yildiz Technical University. Being Turkey's biggest and most comprehensive incubation facility, Yildiz Kulucka (Yildiz Technical University - Incubation Facility) will promote and support tech-based projects with innovative business ideas and able to transform these ideas into actual projects. Yildiz Kulucka (Yildiz Technical University - Incubation Facility) continues to receive supports and incentives both on a national and international scale, what is more, at Yildiz Kulucka, there are exciting projects such as 'Artificial Skin with Tactile Sensing' which is also be going to used by NASA, and 'Angiography Spray'. 60% of the entrepreneurs in the incubation are from the fields of medical, machine manufacturing, electronics, energy, food, industry and chemistry and want to produce an innovative product or hardware. Being Turkey's most comprehensive incubation facility located inside the Yildiz Technopark, its main aim is to add a brand new dimension to the entrepreneurship ecosystem.
"Our aim is to produce something considering our country's interests and public welfare"
Stating that everyone who has a project, idea, and dream will be supported with opportunities, the rector of Yildiz Technical University, Dr. Bahri Sahin spoke as follows: "If one does not have any project, she is subjected to the 6 months-long incubation period. She is being given scientific courage about her dream. We extend this period for another 6 months for those who are successful. Those who looks promising here at this stage are passed to the post-incubation. The process goes like that. Our aim here is to produce technological devices and transform the dream real products. That is why we are going to assess the performances in an outcome-oriented way. All this starts with a dream, project and the process ahead are way too long. Our aim is to produce something considering our country's interests and public welfare."
"It is rather important if the project is innovative or not"
Underlining that Turkey has made a promising progress in defense industry, Sahin shared his opinions as follows: "While choosing our projects, we take countries' priorities into consideration. It is rather important if the project is innovative or not, it is critical for the elimination process. Our industrial projects should be innovative, and it is important. During the approval process, projects are reviewed by an arbitration board. We have a variety of criteria, our arbitration board review the projects considering these criteria, and as a result of the review, we approve the allowance of the project creator to establish a company."
Established in the Davutpasa Campus of Yildiz Technical University in 2003, Yildiz Technopark hosts more than 6.000 R&D and Software personnel in 380 companies with R&D offices of 125 thousand square meters in 11 buildings with the Ikitelli Campus which became operational in late 2014. Within Yildiz Technopark, new initiatives start to operate in the incubation office, prototypes are implemented in workshops, experiments are conducted in labs, and the training, mentorship and consultancy that entrepreneurs need are provided free of charge.
In the new incubation which was opened to the use of the entrepreneurs, the entrepreneurs with a business idea but not yet at the stage of establishing a company have the chance to reach the support of preincubation, whereas the entrepreneurs who are the stage of establishing their companies are able to receive the support of incubation activities, and those who keep going successfully have the chance to get the post-incubation support. Furthermore, the headquarters of the International Incubation Center to be established in the Silicon Valley in the USA in cooperation with the universities had the chance to receive a $3.85 million support from KOSGEB including Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul Technical University, Gebze Technical University, Hasan Kalyoncu University, and Bahcesehir University are also in that area.
