The first and the most successful Acceleration Program of Turkey New Ideas New Business (YFYİ) organized by ODTÜ and ODTÜ TEKNOKENT opens up the way to international market together with San Francisco center T-JUMP the collaboration of ODTÜ TEKNOKENT for the youth and young technology companies.

 

YFYİ continues to support youth and young technology companies since the first day of 2017 term with its new structure and technology based ideas that provide acceleration, supports commercialization process in United States and enable to foster together with international investors from the initial day.

YFYİ acceleration program is mostly performed in San Francisco, the heart of entrepreneurship

The initiatives at idea stage or at early stage, for which prototypes are ready, will be prepared for a 7 weeks USA camp through the pre-acceleration and bootcamp that will be organized in Turkey. The entrepreneurs, who are successful in the program in Turkey, will perform an intense training, mentorship and network activities within the ecosystem of Silicon Valley and they will accelerate their launch in USA market. In October 2017, successful YFİ initiatives opened in Silicon Valley will come to the stage in Turkey on the demo day in front of the ecosystem and.

Investment and Capital Support Opportunity for YFYİ Inıtiatives

The initiatives that will be accelerated through intense mentorship and trainings will be presented to national and international investors through ODTÜ TEKNOKENT and ODTÜ TEKNOKENT San Francisco center T-JUMP throughout this program.  The entrepreneurs who are successfully graduated from this program may catch up the chance to receive investment after being accessed within T-JUMP Ventures portfolio. The entrepreneurs who are included in the ODTÜ TEKNOKENT ecosystem through YFYİ benefit this network and will be in contact with investor stakeholders.

YFYİ entrepreneurs, who are not incorporated yet, may also take the opportunity for incorporating by obtaining 150.000 TL TÜBİTAK BİGG Technoinvestment Capital Support through ODTÜ TEKNOKENT’s T-BİGG program.

Offices in Turkey and San Francisco for Young Technology Companies

The entrepreneurs who are successfully graduated from YFYİ acceleration program may hire an office for one year free of charge at ODTÜ TEKNOKENT Incubation Center and ODTÜ TEKNOKENT’s San Francisco center T-JUMP.

ODTÜ TEKNOKENT Inıtiatives and Achievements

Within the scope of YFYİ until today more than 6500 business ideas were assessed; core capital more than 2 million US Dollars provided for the teams; more than 110 patent applications were made, and establishment of more than 200 technology based company and creating more than 750 employment were supported. During last 12 years, our YFYİ companies started to take investments from international institutions and selling their products in global markets through their breaking through achievements.

The founders of one of the most popular social content platforms of Turkey Onedio are also YFYİ entrepreneurs. The company which received more than 4 million dollars investment is within ODTÜ TEKNOKENT.

YFYI initiative Evreka which converted the garbage containers into smart containers by means of wireless sensors became one of the leader companies in waste collection sector that renders services both in domestic and international markets received total 2,7 million TL investment from 500 Startups, Sankonline, Nexus Ventures and Filip Minasyan 740 thousand dollars respectively.

Many successful companies such as smart baby and baby sitter monitoring service Invidyo, ISSD that manages most of the smart transportation systems smart, Btech Innovation which provides 3D printing solutions for aviation, medical, defense and automotive sectors are also the graduates of New Ideas New Business Acceleration program.

Please visit www.yfyi.com in order to apply to YFYİ which aims to provide the opportunity of receiving investment during establishment, creating accelerated incorporation and international achievement stories and to obtain detailed information.

METU Polar Research Workshop

20 March 2017 Monday, Room: KKM C, 9:30 – 16:30

Polar regions (Arctic and Antarctic) play an increasingly key role in global climate change.  As extreme environments (darkness, low temperatures), polar lands and seas can serve as a natural laboratory to confront grand challenges from social to engineering sciences.  Moreover, they are of great geopolitical importance due to the untapped fossil fuel resources.

Academic interest in Polar research in Turkey have surged in recent years and Turkish Government has publicly  announced plans to initiate an Antartic science base. In this context, there is an urgent need to identify a research program within METU that is multidisciplinary, innovative and internationally competitive.  Some of the fields that may contribute to Polar research include:

Climate, Marine and Earth Sciences

Materials, civil and mechanical engineering at extreme environments

Psychology: adaptation in isolated environments

Life sciences and biomedical engineering

Biodiversity, conservation biology

Robotics and sensor technologies

International relations and law

Astronomy, electromagnetism, remote sensing

Energy and environmental engineering

Primary aims of this workshop are:

-          To identify research areas and capacity in METU that may be related to Polar research

-          To discuss the latest national and international oppportunities and challenges

-          To build bridges between the established METU research fields and  Polar sciences

-          To bring together potential researchers that may be willing to take part in a future METU Polar Research Center

 

You can find the workshop program below.  For more information please contact Assoc. Prof. Barış Salihoğlu (baris@ims.metu.edu.tr) .

 

METU Polar Research Workshop

20 March, 2017, Monday, KKM Hall C, 9:30 – 16:30

 

Programme

09:30-10:00   Registration

10:00-10:30    Opening, Why is polar research important? (Prof. M.V. Kök, Prof. M. Zeyrek, Assoc.Prof. A. Yozgatlıgil, Assoc. Prof. B. Salihoğlu; METU)

10:30-11:00    What is the current state of polar research at the international level? (Assoc.Prof. B. Fach, METU)

11:00-11:15   Coffee Break

11:15-11:45   Why Turkey should be active in polar research and what has been done so far? (Prof. B. Öztürk, Istanbul University)   

11:45-12:30   METU Polar Explorers (Assist. Prof. K. Özkan, Dr. H. Örek, Assoc.Prof. B. Fach, Assoc.Prof. B. Salihoğlu, Dr. M. Ok, METU)

12:30-13:30   Lunch break, discussions on METU capacity

13:30-15:00   Defining the current polar research capacity of METU: Interactive working groups (Moderators: Assoc. Prof. A. Yozgatlıgil, Assist.Prof. M. Yücel, Prof. A. Yılmaz, Dr A. Gazihan)

15:00-15:15   Coffee Break

15:15-16:00    Synthesis of workshop results, feedback from participants (Moderators: Assoc.Prof. B. Salihoğlu, Assist. Prof. D. Tezcan)

 

The importance of entrepreneurship is increasing day by day due to the economic, social and cultural contributions it makes. Including the activities of gathering university-produced knowledge and bringing it in the society and economy, "Academic Entrepreneurship" plays a major role in the commercialization of inventions. In this scope, the first of the "Academic Entrepreneurship" training program organized by ODTÜ Technology Transfer Office (ODTÜ TTO) will be held in ODTÜ Teknokent on Saturday, February 11. The business model, the first and most important phase of the entrepreneurship process in education, and its breakdowns will be addressed in the training.

Participation in "Academic Entrepreneurship" training that supports entrepreneurship activities allowing for the commercialization of technology developed in universities is limited to 20 people.

Please send an e-mail to tto@odtuteknokent.com.tr to participate in the program expected to be beneficial for our academicians who are company owners or who want to establish their companies.

Please find the schedule below.

 

09:30 – 10:20     What is Entrepreneurship?

10:30 – 11:20     What is Internal Entrepreneurship? What are the Differences Between Them?

11:30 – 12:20     Introduction to Business Model, Customer Segmentation and Value Proposition

12:20 – 13:30     Lunch

13:30 – 14:20     Channels, Customer Relations and Income Model

14:30 – 15:20     Key Resources, Key Partners and Cost Structure

15:30 – 16:20     Lean Entrepreneurship, Customer Discovery, Test of Hypothesis and MVP