Serdar Alemdar

With its more than 450 tenant companies, 70% of which were initiated in its premises and employ more than 10.000 personnel, 90% of which have bachelor, master of PhD degrees and with the 170.000 square meters of closed area reserved for R&D operations, ODTU TEKNOKENT has undersigned exemplary success stories to serve as a model for other technoparks in Turkey. The companies that are operating at ODTU TEKNOKENT are involved in R&D activities in software and information technologies (50%), electronics (20%), mechanics and design (15%), medical technologies (6%), energy and environment (6%) and advanced materials, agriculture, food, aviation and space, automotive that account for the remaining 3% altogether. Among some of the R&D projects carried out in ODTU TEKNOKENT can be counted, aircraft/helicopter systems dynamic modeling and simulation, aircraft/helicopter control systems development, satellite systems development, alternative energy and fuel projects, wind and hydro turbine design, vehicle tracking systems, test and measurement systems design, power sources and energy feed systems, lase applications, sensor technologies, tissue and genetics research, e-government, e-commerce, distance education, e-learning and e-education software development, ERP-MRP solutions development, education management systems design, geographical information systems software, formatted message management systems, hospital software, advanced materials research and microelectromechanical systems design and application projects. ODTU TEKNOKENT runs miscellaneous programs for the companies and entrepreneurs that it hosts. Among these are, “YFYI Acceleration Program” and “Animation Technologies and Game Development Center” namely the pre-incubation programs to promote technology-based entrepreneurship; incubation centers; accelerator and investor "Growth Circuit" developed as a financial tool; “ODTÜ Technology Transfer Office” for the commercialization of academic know-how; Defence, ICT and health clusters as an expeditor of collaboration among companies; and finally liaison offices abroad to pave the way for international cooperation.