One of Türkiye’s distinguished trade chambers just lately unveiled a plan for establishing the nation’s largest expertise hub in Ankara to harness the capital’s untapped potential and propel it into the realm of the excessive value-added enterprise, in line with an Anadolu Agency (AA) report.
In a written assertion, Ankara Chamber of Industry (ASO) President Seyit Ardıç highlighted Ankara’s advantageous place in comparison with many different cities inside the nation resulting from its 13 organized industrial zones, 150 R&D facilities, 36 design facilities, 13 expertise growth zones, certified human sources, and entrepreneurship potential.
“We have set out on the path to establishing Türkiye’s largest technology hub to transform this potential of our capital into high value-added,” Ardıç mentioned, including that Türkiye’s per capita export, which is $11,200, will increase to $15,300 in expertise growth zones.
Comparing these figures with these in South Korea, the place per capita exports attain $28,600, he underscored that the info in query reveals the significance of expertise growth zones being intertwined with trade.
“ASO Ankara Technology Hub will create an ecosystem where industry and university collaboration will strengthen, and startups will have closer relationships with industrial enterprises,” he famous.
“It will feature market-oriented, high-export potential ventures,” he added.
Moreover, Ardıç famous that the hub would deliver collectively trade and technology-based entrepreneurship whereas R&D and innovation processes would focus immediately on manufacturing.
“Cooperation will be established with organized industrial zones (OSB), and the commercialization process of products will be accelerated. Thus, a foundation will be laid for our per capita technology exports to reach $30,000 from the current level of $15,000,” he defined.
Furthermore, he acknowledged that Ankara’s financial attractiveness is rising every day and emphasised that there’s a optimistic development of migration to the town resulting from its low threat of pure disasters.
Elaborating on this, Ardıç mentioned that the inhabitants within the capital has surged by roughly 1 million folks within the final decade, referring to pupil figures contributing to this determine.
“About 500,000 of this increase occurred through migration, and according to research, university graduates constitute 35% of those who migrate to Ankara. Our qualified human resources is growing exponentially. The ecosystem created by ASO Ankara Technology Hub will also create job opportunities for thousands of engineers and scientists,” he mentioned.
The expertise hub is about to be established on a 1.2 million sq. meter space on Eskişehir Road, the place the commercial zones and universities are concentrated within the capital.
The research associated to the hub are being performed inside ASO Technopark Inc. Among the companions of the corporate are ASO 1. OSB, ASO 2. OSB, Middle East Technical University (METU), and TOBB University of Economics and Technology.
After the feasibility research are accomplished, ASO Ankara Technology Hub, which is in its closing phases, is deliberate to be operational after three to 5 years of funding.
Source: www.dailysabah.com
