Konya Teknokent/ Konya Selçuk TTO

Konya Teknokent operates the Selcuk Technology Transfer Office and manages the Selcuk University Technology Development Zone in Konya, Turkiye. The transfer office runs the institutional process for identifying, assessing, protecting and licensing academic intellectual assets, supports spin-off and start-up formation, and manages university-industry research contracts. The technopark campus hosts technology companies, research and development units and early-stage ventures.

Our International Projects and Entrepreneurship Unit prepares and coordinates proposals for Horizon Europe, TUBITAK and other international programmes, and runs entrepreneurship and commercialisation training for researchers and students.

Selcuk University is a comprehensive state university with faculties across engineering, agriculture, medicine and the social sciences. Konya is one of Turkiye's most manufacturing-intensive regions, with established clusters in agricultural machinery, automotive components and food processing, which gives our commercialisation work direct access to industrial end users.

In September 2026 we coordinated FAIR2MARKET, a Horizon Europe Coordination and Support Action submitted under HORIZON-EIE-2026-03-CONNECT-01 with Selcuk University, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Imperial College London and an Italian innovation SME. The project develops a shared European method for assessing and documenting academic intellectual assets, a startup-friendly licensing toolbox, and an incentive and benefit-sharing model giving researchers and students a stake in commercial outcomes.

For the ERA 2027 call we are most interested in Pillar I on institutional open access policies and the retention of intellectual property rights, where our transfer office already operates the institutional IP process and can offer both practice and a pilot environment, and in Pillar II on talent ecosystems for early research careers, where researcher incentives and entrepreneurship training are part of our daily work. As a Widening country organisation with a validated PIC and recent coordination experience, we can join a consortium as a partner or take the coordinator role.