ETU Crystal Entrepreneurship Center

Hello. I am lecturer Özge Gençer and I am Project Manager at the ETU Kristal Entrepreneurship Center at Erzurum Technical University. Our project, entitled ‘ETU Kristal Center for Entrepreneurship’, which was entered by the university for the 2017 Attraction Centers Support Program of the Industry and Technology Ministry of the Turkish Republic, entered into force on 4 January 2018 with the agreement signed between the Northeast Anatolia Development Agency and the University. Our center is a place where strong scientific steps have been taken, the technical infrastructure is rapidly evolving each passing day and is also closely monitored from the surrounding provinces. It is located on Erzurum Technical University Campus, 3 km along the Erzurum Airport Road, in an area of 500 square meters on the ground floor of the Faculty of Science—and is a center in which ideas are incubated. The aim of our center is to implement technological initiatives and ideas in our country. Opportunities are offered to individuals who have ideas and need space or the technical infrastructure to transform an idea into a concrete product. It has all the necessary infrastructure and equipment needed for entrepreneurs to develop their innovative projects in order to realize their successful business ideas in the early stages. In this scientific atmosphere, there are open offices, award rooms, a prototyping workshop, a recreation and play area, a meeting room, a seminar room and a shared kitchen. As a result of the applications made to the program, we host entrepreneurs who are accepted to our center by the Preliminary Assessment Board for a period of 12 months. During this period, entrepreneurs can focus on their business ideas and receive training, mentoring and consultancy services so that they can develop their business ideas. In addition to these, entrepreneurs are also provided with the necessary support to help them meet investors, to introduce them to investment networks, to present their business ideas, to establish their businesses and to expand their business. Thus, any entrepreneur who has any notion, success or innovative idea in the field of technology can put into practice their ideas and dreams by applying via our 'kristal.erzurum.edu.tr' address. For this reason, we await all entrepreneurs who have a technological based business idea and believe that idea can be transformed into commercial activity regardless of whether they have any organic bond with the university.