University – Industry Collaborations: Best
Practices
Prof. Dr. A. Hamit SERBEST
President of USIMP
University Industry Collaboration
 UIC is not social responsibility issue
 UIC is not accomplished for personal curiosity
 UIC
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Should be considered as a business
Should create win-win solutions
Sould serve for public welfare
Should yield results to the benefit of humanity
What Turkey had Achieved by Now…
After I. World War and Turkish War of Independence, Turkey by 1923
 Dependent Economy, Underdeveloped, Agriculture Based, Raw
Material Production
 Railway Infrastructure and Factory
 Airplane Factory
 Factories in Textile, Sugar and Cement Sectors
 1933 – University Reform
 1933 – I. Five Year Term Industry Plan
 1938 - II. Five Year Term Industry Plan
II. WORLD WAR….
 1948 – 1951 Marshall Plan (137 M$)
WHAT WAS THE COST TO TURKEY?
WHAT WE MISSED…
 1940s
AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY AND SECTOR
 1960s
AUTOMATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND SECTOR
1990s
TELECOMMUNICATONS TECHNOLOGY AND SECTOR
Turkey is considered only a Customer in these Sectors.
Can we become one of the main actors???
WHAT WE LEARNED…
 Donot Expect Everything From The Government…
 Laws, Regulations,… Are Not Sufficient To Create
The Desirable Conditions/Results…
 Cultural Background is the Essential Item…
 Therefore, Knowledge Gained From Experiences
Should Be Kept And Accumulated To Build Up The
Culture…
THIS IS WHY USIMP WAS
ESTABLISHED?
 National Platform to exchange views on university- industry
cooperation
 Platform involves all experiences gained in Turkey
 Established in June 2007 - A Total of 58 Members
 Universities, Public Institutions, Chambers of Industry, Export
Unions, Organized Industrial Regions, NGOs
• Full Member (Interface Organisations)
• Associate Member (Beginners)
• Affiliated Member (Support Organisations)
INITIATION OF UIC and R&D
 1974 – 1978 Embargo of USA
 1983 – First Science and Technology Policy of Turkey
 1989 – World Bank Project (to become a developed economy –
human resources, infrastructure, legal regulations)
 1990 KOSGEB Small and Medium Enterprises Development
Organization
 1990 State Planning Institute of Turkey - Centers Of Excellence
Program
 1991 TTGV (Technology Development Foundation of Turkey)
 1995 – World Trade Organization – Financial Support to Companies
only for R&D Projects
 1995 – TUBITAK Industrial R&D Department
EXPERIENCES GAINED
 1997 – Science and Technology Policy of Turkey
 1997 – TUBITAK University-Industry Joint Research Centers Program
 2000 – SPI Industrial Doctorate Program
 2001 – Technology Development Zones (Technoparks)
 2002 EU Framework Programs
 2003 - 2023 Technology Forecast Study and Strategy Report
 2006 TUBITAK Technology Platforms
 2006 Regional Development Agencies
EXPERIENCES GAINED
 2007 SAN-TEZ – MINISTRY OF SCIENCE, INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY
 2008 R&D Centers within Industrial Companies
 2009 Techno-Entrepreneurship Program
 2010 – Cluster Support Program (Ministry of Economy)
 2012 TTO Program
 2013 Enterpreneurship at Universities Program
 2013 Mentorship Model Creation for SMEs Program
 2013 Financial Support to Creation of Enterpreneurship Funds
 Pre-Incubator and Incubator Programs
2002
2010
High
6.2 % 3.4%
High to Medium 24.3% 32.2%
Medium to Low 22.8% 31.8%
Low
46.8 % 32.6%
TECHNOLOGICAL LEVEL - Exports
IP AWARENESS
1790
1791
1815
1877
1879
1885
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USA
FRANCE
RUSSIA
GERMANY
OTTOMAN EMPIRE
JAPONYA
First Revision – 1952
Second Revision – 1994 (TPI) EU Customs Union
Third Revision – 2004 EU Harmonization Process
Fourth Revision – Waiting for ???…
EXPERIENCES TRANSFERRED
University-Industry Joint Research Centers Program (ÜSAMP)
Triple Helix Model / 1997 – 2006 / Total 6 Centers…
1997 SAM – Ceramic Research Center (Corporation)
2000 Adana ÜSAM – University Industry Research Center (Corporation)
+(Association)
2002 TAM – Textile Research Center
2003 OTAM – Automative Research Center (Corporation)
2004 – Biomedical Technologies Rresearch Center (Association)
ODAGEM (OSTIM Technology Research Center) (Corporation)
FACTS ABOUT USA / TR
TR
FİKİR
NİYE
NASIL
KİM İÇİN
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 Awareness, Training, Education
 Facilitate Exploitation of R&D Supports
 Project Management
 Enterpreneurship
 Commertialization
USA
MISSION, GOALS,…
Develop recommendations
 for national strategies and
 for effective and efficient implementation
 of university-industry cooperation
Create national synergy
 through national and international projects and congresses
Stimulate the interaction between the main actors and stakeholders
Enhance visibility of UIC
 create a cooperation culture
 contribute to the establishment of intermediaries
Foster research & innovation, for economic competitiveness and growth
through effective and efficient UIC
ACTIVITIES
 Workshops (with AUTM)
 Symposia
 Survey (Expectations from UIC, problems and solutions)
 University-Industry Centres’ Summit
 TTO Seminars
 Trainings
 Annual Conferences
 General Assembly Three Times per year
UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY CO-OPERATION
NATIONAL CONGRESSES
 Adana (2008)
 Eskişehir (2009)
 Ankara (2010)
 İzmir (2011)
 İstanbul (2012)
 Düzce (2013)
 Kayseri (2014)
GLOBAL TT PROCESS
Dünya Üzerindeki Tüm
Noktaların Birbirine Bağlanmış
Olması Gerekir.
Dünyanın Artık Yeraltındaki
Zenginliklere İhtiyacı YOK…
Dünya Üzerinde Herhangi Bir
Noktada Doğabilecek Bir Fikir
MUTLAKA Yeşerme Şansı Bulmalı…
Dünyanın İhtiyacı, İnsanların Kafasındaki Fikirler!!!
İnsanın Bilgisi, Aklı, Zekası, Yeteneği,…
BETTER Know–how Needed
 Effective initiation of start-ups
 Financing for diferent growth phases: Risk capital funds
 Valorisation of research results
 Non-IP based entrepreneurship
 Various routes for commercialisation of research results
 Metrics for non-economic impacts of research results
THIS IS WHAT WE
NEED
USIMP
THE
FRIENDLY
GHOST
QUESTIONS???
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