“Interdisciplinary R&D Awareness Meeting-II” was held by our University’s Technology Transfer Office Coordinatorship Project Support Unit under the chairmanship of our Rector Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Çiçek.
Approximately 1500 people, including deans, instructors, and students of our university attended the meeting which was held online and streamed live digitally. Prof. Dr. Hüseyin Çiçek who spoke at the opening of the meeting told Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University has focused all its attention on its goal of becoming an R&D University and the most important aspect at reaching this goal is to work together with stakeholders.
Rector Çiçek emphasized that all the recent grand achievements of MSKU were results of interdisciplinary studies by saying “For bigger achievements we have to find a way to work collectively instead of individually”.
At the meeting, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Prof. Dr. Bekir Taner Dinçer, Dean of the Faculty of Literature Prof. Dr. Ali Akar, Dean of the Faculty of Technology Prof. Dr. Hilmi Toker, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Prof. Dr. Nevres Hürriyet Aydoğan, Vice-Rector of our University Prof. Dr. Artay Yağcı, Dean of the Faculty of Education Prof. Dr. Özgür Yıldız, Dean of the Faculty of Tourism Prof. Dr. Cafer Topaloğlu and Muğla Technopark General Manager Dr. Instructor Ethem Barış Süzek explained the importance of interdisciplinary work with examples in the "Dean Representatives" session.
Dr. Instructor Ethem Barış Süzek addressed the advantages of the Technoparks for entrepreneurs, the application steps for Technoparks, the history of the Muğla Technopark, and the elements of interdisciplinary R&D projects in Technoparks in his presentation titled “Muğla Technopark Interdisciplinary R&D”.
Süzen said the contribution of the Technopark to our province and our country will be the “sustainable development” which will emerge with the increase in competitive power, strong capital, human capital, and domestic and national elements and also gave information on Muğla Technopark.
Dr. Instructor Ethem Barış Süzek said “Entrepreneur amount has reached to 21 in Muğla Technopark. This means 7 times increase in the last 6 months. 30 personnel are working in the Technopark and just this summer 50 students interned here. We have a large firm range, and we are providing services especially in the computer and informatics areas. Again, the total revenue of Muğla Teknopart entrepreneurs in the last 6 months is 1.3 million TRY. We are estimating this number will exceed 2 million TRY towards the year’s end. One other interesting point is that although we are only active for 6 months our exporting entrepreneur amount has reached 3. We currently have firms exporting to USA and England”.
He also emphasized that these are important achievements for a yet small and new Technopark.