Ostim Technopark, together with Atılım University and Başkent University, has had its application accepted to the Phase 1 Implementing Organization Call of the 1512 Technopreneurship Capital Support Program (BiGG) launched by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK).
7 organizations qualified to receive support.
TÜBİTAK announced the results of the 1512 Technopreneurship Capital Support Program, which aims to encourage qualified entrepreneurship and create innovative, technologically advanced start-up companies with international competitiveness. The program supports entrepreneurs in transforming their technology and innovation-focused business ideas into ventures with high potential for creating added value and qualified employment, from the idea stage to market entry. Following the evaluation of 25 applications submitted during the call for proposals, which ran from June 1st to June 30th, 2016, 7 organizations were deemed eligible for support.
Ostim Technopark, in collaboration with Atlım University and Başkent University, applied to the Phase 1 Implementing Organization Call of the 1601-TÜBİTAK Support Program for Increasing Capacity in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which was launched in 2016. Ostim Technopark, Turkey's first thematic technopark, became the 6th institution in Ankara and one of the 20 institutions nationwide whose application was accepted for the 1512 Technopreneurship Capital Support Program.
Within the scope of the program, entrepreneurs will receive entrepreneurship training, and mentors with industry experience will provide support to entrepreneurs on technical, commercial, and administrative issues. The program consists of three stages aimed at transforming innovative business ideas into commercial products/processes/services. Entrepreneurs can proceed to the next stage by completing each stage sequentially and, if deemed suitable by TÜBİTAK, moving on to the next stage.
According to a statement from TÜBİTAK, the supported organizations will be among the Implementing Organizations that will conduct the Phase 1 processes in the BiGG call, which will be launched in the first months of 2017. Within the scope of the BiGG call, Implementing Organizations will collect and evaluate business idea applications from prospective entrepreneurs, place suitable business ideas into pre-incubation, put them through business idea validation processes, and support entrepreneurs in preparing high-quality business plans.
What awaits entrepreneurs in Phase 1?
Phase 1 of the 1512 Program begins with entrepreneurs submitting their business ideas to implementing organizations. These organizations evaluate the business ideas and provide entrepreneurs with training, mentorship, incubation, and other services for ideas with a high probability of developing into a successful business plan. During the process of transforming the business idea into a business plan, work is carried out to validate the idea from a commercial perspective. The first phase is completed by the business plan application deadline specified in the call for technopreneurship capital support.
Ostim Technopark in brief
Ostim Technopark Technology Development Zone Management Inc. commenced operations on December 2, 2014, following its announcement in the Turkish Trade Registry Gazette No. 8706, under the scope of the Technology Development Zones Law.
Ostim Technopark is located within the OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone and comprises a total of 87,640 m² of open space. OSTİM, encompassing all the elements of an industrial city, offers advantages for the Technopark with its ease of transportation, alternative financial environments, logistics services, social life and healthcare services, numerous public institution representatives, and civil society organizations.
The goal is to create a national reference and mobility center in the field of clean technology, focusing on problem-solving through the business experience of industrialists operating in the basin, which also includes the OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone, and the knowledge of universities, with contributions from all stakeholders across the country.
Ostim Technopark, the first thematic technopark in Turkey, aims to prioritize companies operating in the field of clean technologies, to create strong cooperation and synergy between companies operating in OSTİM OSB in the field of clean technology such as environmentally friendly energy, energy efficiency, and resource efficiency, and the 6 universities that are partners of Ostim Technopark, and to guide the manufacturing of high value-added medium and high-tech products.
The OSTİM Renewable Energy and Environmental Technologies Cluster Association, which has made it its mission to create a facilitating and guiding platform that increases cooperation and synergy among all stakeholders in the sector in order to increase the production capabilities, national/international competitiveness and market share of local producers in OSTİM in the renewable energy and environmental technologies sector, is also among the partners of Ostim Technopark.
