About us
We shorten the distance between an idea and its market.
Ankara University TEKMER is a Technology Development Centre established within Ankara University and in active operation. Turning an idea into a product never happens in a single workshop: knowledge, mentorship, infrastructure and collaboration are all needed at once. TEKMER brings those four together under one roof.
Location
F Block, on the Ankara University campus
Status
An operating centre that holds the right to use the KOSGEB TEKMER name
Access
The university's laboratory network, academic expertise and technology transfer processes are open to ventures directly
Scope
Sector-agnostic: every team building technology, from artificial intelligence to health, from energy to agri-food
Definition
What is a TEKMER?
KOSGEB Technology Centre Support Programme
Technology Development Centres are centres established under KOSGEB's Technology Centre Support Programme that offer pre-incubation, incubation and post-incubation support so entrepreneurs can develop their ideas, turn them into products and take them to market.
- Pre-incubation
- Incubation
- Post-incubation
Side by side
How a TEKMER differs from a technopark
TEKMER
Technology Development Centre
Technopark
Technology Development Zone
Focus
TEKMERWorks with early-stage ventures and with people who still only have an idea.
TechnoparkHosts mature R&D companies.
Basis
TEKMERSupported through the KOSGEB programme.
TechnoparkEstablished under Law No. 4691.
The two complete each other: a venture is born in a TEKMER and can grow in a technopark.
Our aims
What was the centre set up to do?
- Founding technology-based ventures
- Commercialising academic knowledge
- Developing R&D and innovation projects
- Access to investment and finance
- University–industry collaboration
- Backing young entrepreneurs and researchers
Our vision
To be a technology centre where university knowledge becomes a product.
What that means in practice
Knowledge leaves the shelf
Research produced at the university does not stop at publication; it becomes a product that reaches a user.
Academics become founders
A researcher commercialising their own technology stops being an exception and becomes an established route.
The regional economy gains
Every venture created comes back as employment, technology and export capacity.
Our mission
To equip teams at the idea stage with mentorship, training, infrastructure and ecosystem access, and turn them into market-ready ventures.
Four commitments carry it
Mentorship
Every venture is matched with a mentor experienced in its field; nobody walks the road alone.
Training
Gaps in business model, finance, law and marketing are closed through a scheduled training programme.
Infrastructure
Office space, laboratories and the prototype workshop are open from the first day.
Ecosystem
Contact with academia, industry, the public sector and investors is opened on the venture's behalf.
Our values
Four principles that decide how we work
Openness
The process, the criteria and the reasoning behind a decision are shared with the venture. What we look at in an assessment is never hidden.
Collaboration
Academia, industry and the public sector sit at the same table. A venture grows inside a network, not on its own.
Measurability
Every step has defined exit criteria. Progress rests on data, not on a feeling.
Continuity
Support begins with a programme but does not end at graduation. A graduate venture stays part of the ecosystem.
If any of this sounds like your work, the next move is yours.
Tell us your idea and where it stands today; we will work out together which support it needs first.