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<p style="text-align:center;"> [[File:Koc University.jpg]]<br/p> <span style="font-size:larger;text-align:center">'''OVERVIEW'''</span>
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Koc University (KU) is located in Istanbul Sariyer, Turkey. It was established in 1993 and has been one of the leading research universities in Turkey since its establishment. The university declares its principle mission as: “… to cultivate Turkey’s most competent graduates, well-rounded adults who are internationally qualified; who can think creatively, independently and objectively; and who are confident leaders.”
Student innovation and entrepreneurship is encouraged to a certain extent and mainly focuses on engineering and science areas. The number and variety of innovation and entrepreneurship-related courses and the courses which are not directly related to these concepts but still inspire students are not much. The inspirational events and workshops are usually held by student organizations and clubs such as Entrepreneurship Club, IEEE, ACM, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Society and Industrial Engineers Society rather than the faculties and administration. The school has the [https://glls.ku.edu.tr/ Global Leadership and Learning for Sustainability] Program that is a certificate program that trains students to live and create 21<sup>st</sup> century campus experience and be active global citizens. The campus houses [https://kuar.ku.edu.tr/ Koç University Arçelik Research Center for Creative Industries (KUAR)] and [https://kworks.ku.edu.tr/en/ Koç University Entrepreneurship Research Center] which do not engage a large number of students mostly for outside organizations in the creative processes but still creates opportunities for a selected group of students.
<big>'''Courses related to Innovation and Entrepreneurship:'''</big>
- Sustainability and Impact Management Track
- Design Technology and Society for Graduate Students
- Global Learning and Leadership for Sustainability Track (Application only)
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<span style="font-size:larger;">'''ENCOURAGING FACULTY INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP'''</span>
- KUIS AI Center
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<span style="font-size:larger;">'''ACTIVELY SUPPORTING THE TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION''' </span>
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Koc University Research, Project Development and Technology Transfer Directorate (RPDTTD), which was founded in 2009, provides university-industry collaboration opportunities, research support services, technology transfer, and research centers and laboratories. They provide legal advice and project management for granted projects. They offer help in patent and licence license application processes, direct the entrepreneurs to the [https://kworks.ku.edu.tr/en KWORKS] Entrepreneurship Center. The directorate has connections with the 17 research centers, 5 research forums and 1 support center of Koc University and they ensure the connection and communication between them and researchers in Koc University.
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<span style="font-size:larger;">'''FACILITATING UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION''' </span>
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The Koc University Research, Project Development and Technology Transfer Directorate helps the project owners develop business plans. The research infrastructure of the university is open to applications of industrial organisations’ organizations’ use. The coordinator of this kind of use of the university’s resources is RPDTTD and the available research centers for this purpose are: Koc University TÜPRAŞ Energy Center and Koc University Surface Technologies Research Center. [https://kworks.ku.edu.tr/en KWORKS] plays an important role in forming university-industry bonds. Many of our faculty mostly in the engineering department also have companies where they can use their academic activity to be a part of the industry.
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<span style="font-size:larger;">'''ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS'''</span>
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Koc University university does not have a seperate separate economic development office. Still , KUAR and KWORKS fill the gap. Especially KWORKS provide mentorship, financial consultancy, business and product development support, technical consultancy, legal consultancy and government grants consultancy.
<big>'''[https://kworks.ku.edu.tr/en/programs/ Programs KWORKS have to engage students with regional and local economic development:]''' </big>
'''KWORKS'20 Pre-Accelerator Program:'''
KWORKS’20 Pre-Accelerator Program is designed for early -stage entrepreneurs who are “checking it out”,
looking to explore their idea a bit further but not ready to start a business yet.
'''KWORKS’20 Accelerator Program:'''
KWORKS’20 Accelerator Program is created with promising early -stage startups in mind,
helping them explore the leap toward scaling their own startups.
'''KWORKS BiGG:'''
KWORKS BiGG is the Personal Youth Entrepreneurship program of KWORKS with the support of TÜBİTAK.
'''TÜPRAŞ ile INOWHATIF:'''
TÜPRAŞ ile INOWHATIF is energy, industry and innovation -focused corporate acceleration program of TÜPRAŞ.
'''KWORKS FINTECH:'''
KWORKS FINTECH is the Financial Technologies Acceleration Program of KWORKS that runs with the support of ISTKA.
'''KWORKS IoT:'''
KWORKS IoT is the Internet of Things Acceleration Program of KWORKS that runs with the support of ISTKA.
'''<span style="font-size:larger;">RELATED LINKS</span>'''
[[Koç University Student Priorities|Student Priorities]]
'''University Innovation Fellows(2017)'''
[[Ceren Kocaogullar|<span style="font-size:small;">Ceren_Kocaogullar</span>]] [[Mehmetyalcinaydin|<span style="font-size:small;">Mehmet Yalcin AydinCeren Kocaogullar</span>]]
[[Mine Hazal ŞenolMehmetyalcinaydin|<span style="font-size:small;">Mine_Hazal_ŞenolMehmet Yalcin Aydin</span>]]
[[Orhun CancaMine Hazal Şenol|<span style="font-size:small;">Orhun_CancaMine Hazal Şenol</span>]]
[[Orhun Canca|<span style=== "font-size:small;">Orhun Canca<br/span> ===]]
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