business partners
With the main sponsorship of Turkish private sector’s official voice Turkish Union Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) and under the leadership of Turkey’s first business angel network and business incubator LabX and Turkey’s young and dynamic university Ozyegin University and with support by Europe’s and world’s leading university's academic department WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, Turkey’s primary voice of young executive GYIAD (Young Professionald and Businessmen Association), world’s leading software company Microsoft and UK’s distinguished g government organizaiton UK Trade and Investment...
University-wide Entrepreneurship Competition 2009/ 10
About Main Sponsor:
TOBB (Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges)
The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) is the highest legal entity in Turkey representing the private sector. Similar to the patterns of guilds and syndicates, which traditionally organized and represented tradesmen and producers throughout the Turkish History, TOBB, too, adopted a representative role in a democratic and modern society. Today, TOBB has 365 members in the form of local chambers of commerce, industry, commerce and industry, maritime commerce and commodity exchanges. TOBB aims at ensuring unity and solidarity between chambers and commodity exchanges, enhancing development of professions in conformance with general interest, facilitating professional work of members, promoting honesty and confidence in the relations of members with one another and with the general public, and preserving professional discipline and ethics.
TOBB Young Entrepreneurs Committee
TOBB Young Entrepreneurs Committee has been established to enhance the entrepreneurship culture in Turkey and comprises Turkey’s leading self-made and successful entrepreneurs. TOBB Young Entrepreneurs Committee aims to deliver speeches, seminars, set up business incubators and disseminate entrepreneurship amoung Turkish youth to increase the number of entrepreneurs across Turkey.
About Business Partners:
LabX
LabX was launched in the second half of 2006 with a mission to enhance the underdeveloped entrepreneurship culture in Turkey by incubating promising business ideas and launching new initiatives. Spun out of Helix Management Consultants, LabX has positioned itself as an entrepreneurship and investment consultancy company. With its innovative approach and succesful business model, LabX has already launched 6 business ventures and enabled many entrepreneurs to make their dreams of becoming their own boss come true. Also a member of Europe’s most respected business angel network EBAN, LabX is keen to initiate promising entrepreneurial ventures with Helix’s 20-year expertise and experience in various sectors.
Ozyegin University
Özyeğin University has been founded as a creative, innovative and entrepreneurial education center, integrated with life, and aiming at serving the society. Özyeğin University welcomed its first students in September 2008 and took the first step to becoming a prestigious campus university in Istanbul within a few years time. Within the framework of the vision thus determined, Özyeğin University aims to contribute to social development by producing creative, original and applicable knowledge with its modern education system, its innovative structure integrated with life and its education programs focusing on the service sector.
WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group), University of Warwick
WMG (formerly Warwick Manufacturing Group) is an academic department of the University of Warwick and was established by Professor Lord Kumar Bhattacharyya in 1980 in order to reinvigorate UK manufacturing through the application of cutting edge research and effective knowledge transfer. The group started small - just an office, the Professor and his secretary - but has since grown into a global force to be reckoned with, delving outside its manufacturing core into new sectors: health, banking, the built environment and digital technology.
GYIAD (Young Professionals and Businessmen Association)
GYIAD (Young Professionals and Businessmen Association) has been established to address the problems and needs of young professionals and businessmen in Turkey and represent them on various platforms. GYIAD is a leading non-governmental organization carrying out various projects to enhance the association’s political and economical influence and impact on the society. GYIAD has a vision to actively support the EU membership process and aims at increasing Turkey’s competitiveness and standard of living by supporting various economical, political and cultural activities. Moreover, GYIAD’s mission is to gather hundreds of young professionals and businessmen, enable them to interact and provide a common platform to make a contribution to Turkey’s future.
Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. Microsoft aims to develop and market software, services, hardware, and solutions that deliver new opportunities, greater convenience, and enhanced value to people’s lives. Microsoft conducts business throughout the world and has offices in more than 100 countries.
UKTI
UK Trade & Investment’s strategic objective is to deliver measurable improvement in the business performance of UK Trade & Investment’s international trade customers, increase the contribution of foreign direct investment to knowledge intensive economic activity in the UK and deliver a measurable improvement in the reputation of the UK in leading overseas markets as the international business partner of choice. UKTI cooperates with all chambers of commerce, trade associations, business network centres across the UK. UKTI Turkey office deploys its communication network, know-how, consultancy services and focused staff with expertise on each sector for businessmen and women who are looking for business opportunities in Turkey.
