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* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue
== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==
In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs and they collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.
==== '''Inspirational Events Organized by Student Clubs''' ====
'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.
'''Outliers III:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.
=== '''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship''' ===
==== '''Research Centers''' ====
'''ITU GİNOVA'''
ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.
'''ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center'''
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets on carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.
The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.
ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.
==== '''How to Workshops''' ====
'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.
==== '''Competitions''' ====
'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.
=== '''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function''' ===
==== '''ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====
ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.
As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the ‘Technology Transfer Office’ of ITU, is particularly positioned as a ‘company’ that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Teknokent.
The vision of İTÜNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.
==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====
ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:
* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.
In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:
* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.
Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.
Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.
=== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ===
'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.
=== '''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts''' ===