In the city of Kodzhaeli, in the north-west of Turkey, the summit of urban economies organized by the Anadolu agency with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Technology of the country.
The central theme of the event – “Industry and technology in the centenary of Turkey”.
The first session of the summit under the name “The Future of National Technologies in the Century of Turkey” took place. The moderator of the discussion was the Deputy General Director of Anadolu Oguz Enis Peru.
The general director of the Department of National Technologies of the Ministry of Industry and Technology addressed the session participants. He indicated the presence of instruments for providing direct or indirect financial support to startups, the most main of which is the Turkish innovative fund.
“Along with the Development Fund, we use a fund of about 500 million lires to invest in startups that are scaled, reached a certain turnover and formed a vision of growth and access to an international level,” he said.
According to the general director of the technological development zone of “the information technology” of Erkama Tuzgen, it was established to promote technological entrepreneurship and production in Turkey, as well as the widespread distribution in the company “Technological Culture”.
“Currently, more than 600 companies operate in the” Information Technology Valley “. Research offices of the world’s largest engineering companies are also located here. We are talking about a very wide scale,” he said.