FRENCH-TURKISH INNOVATION TRANSFER DAYS

FRENCH-TURKISH INNOVATION TRANSFER DAYS Istanbul 19 th of November 2015 Ankara 20 th of November 2015 Bringing together French and Turkish field s leaders of businesses and universities Sharing technology transfer experiences Building Innovation

The French-Turkish Innovation Transfer Days is an event designed to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and opportunities for business and new cooperation between French and Turkish stakeholders in the innovation sector.

ABSTRACT Global and increasing competitive economy is bringing new challenges to face such as internationalization of production process and exchanges as well as the emergence of a knowledge economy in which innovation and research are vectors of growth and competitiveness. In order to embrace these changes Turkish Higher Education Institutes and scientific/technological policy makers are leading toward a development in sciences and R&D as an economic strategy for the national GDP. Technology Development Zones are rapidly growing and new ones are opened every year. France has chosen to develop its competitive clusters since 2004, called Pôles de compétitivité. They are key elements to the French industrial and research policy from a regional and international perspective. The aim of these two days will be to identify and link competitiveness actors and innovation leaders in order to create bridges and matches between French competitiveness clusters and Turkish Teknoparks. This will bring on scientific/technological cooperation and new business opportunities. OBJECTIVES Valorizing technological transfer Developing inter-regional cooperation and inter-clusters Pushing innovation Increasing economical and scientific cooperation Sharing best practices in matching fields Creating growth and employment 2 days - 2 cities Istanbul/Ankara Each day will offer two approaches, a theoretical one and a practical one. The mornings will allow sharing ideas and debating on clusters and innovation models. The afternoons will be dedicated to share between stakeholders of similar fields and will have two goals: exchanges between participants of complementary fields and creation of business opportunities. During afternoons a visit of one or two clusters will be organized.

Istanbul - Day 1 - November 19, at Istanbul Technical University ARI Teknokent ITÜ Ayazaga Campus, ARI Teknokent ARI 3 - Building, Conference Hall Morning 08:30 - Welcome and coffee 09:00-09:45 Opening HEM Ambassador of France, Charles Fries ITÜ Rector - Prof. Dr. Mehmet Karaca Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ilker Murat Ar, General Director of the Directorate General for Science and Technology, Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology 09:45-10:30 Presentation of public policies in France and in Turkey Prof. Dr. Hamit Serbest, President of USIMP (University - Industry Cooperation Centers Platform of Turkey) and Director of Adana USAM (University-Industry Joint Research Center) Joël Sahler, France Clusters Vice-President, Cluster Réseau Mesure President Eric Fajole, French Ministry of Finance, Business France Director for Turkey 10:30 - Coffee Break 11:00-13:30 Round Tables 11:00-12:15 Round table 1 How to foster innovation in the clusters ecosystem? 12:15-13:30 Round table 2 Technologic transfer acceleration strategies: SME s and big companies vision ITÜ ARI Teknokent TKM (Tecknowmetrix) Institute on Higher Education on Science and Technology (IHEST) ibg-izmir Valenciennes University Teknopark Istanbul Moderator Istanbul Startup Angels / ITÜ Schneider Electric Sanofi Pasteur Echy Moderator Dr. Ercan Çitil, Technology Transfer Office GM, ITUNOVA TTO Christophe Lecante, TKM Founder & CEO and IHEST President, Richelieu Committee Vice-President Prof. Dr. Mehmet Ozturk, Director Prof. Dr. Smaïl Niar, Researcher Nuray Tanis, Technology Transfer Office Manager Prof. Dr. Hasan Mandal, YÖK (CoHE) - Executive Board Member Emre Özbek, Managing Partner and ITU Incubation center Coordinator Bora Tuncer, Director Turkey Emin Turan, Director Turkey Florent Longa, Managing Director Gökçe Tabak, COO, ITÜ ARI Teknokent 13:30-14:30 Lunch Afternoon Matching between French and Turkish participants in the same fields 14:30-16:00 ITÜ ARI Teknokent visit and meetings 16:30 - Transfer to Ataturk Airport for participants attending the second day The conference will be held in English, no translation will be provided

Ankara - Day 2 - November 20, at ODTÜ (Middle East Technical University) Teknokent ODTÜ Teknokent Ikizler Binası - Ikizler Conference Hall Morning 08:30 - Welcome and coffee 09:00-09:45 Opening HEM Ambassador of France, Charles Fries Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology - Prof. Dr. Davut Kavranoglu (TBC) ODTU Rector - Prof. Dr. Ahmet Acar 09:45-10:30 Presentation of public policies in Europe, France and Turkey Prof. Dr. Fazilet Vardar Sukan, Vice President of USIMP (University - Industry Cooperation Centers Platform of Turkey) and Director of EBILTEM (Ege University Technology Transfer Office) Henri Varlet, European Foundation for Cluster Excellence 10:30 - Coffee Break 11:00-13:30 Round Tables 11:00-12:15 Round table 1 Enabling Technologic transfer in a cluster ecosystem 12:15-13:30 Round table 2 Developing innovation through public policies, training and consulting Teknopark Istanbul ODTÜ TEKNOKENT SATT Toulouse Tech Transfer SYSTEMATIC ICT Paris-Region Cluster Moderator University of Strasbourg Entrepreneurship and Innovation Academy EURECOM ODTÜ TEKNOKENT Efficient Innovation Moderator Dr. Ismail Ari, General Manager Tolga Özbolat, Director of the Technology Transfer Office of ODTÜ TEKNOKENT Dr. Christophe Haunold, Deputy General Manager Dr. Omar Hammami, Med Plan Head Ufuk Batum, Founder, Ventures & Mentors League Prof. Dr. Madjid Bouzar, Co-Director of the European Center of Clusters management skills and research and Head of the department of studies in International Relations at the University of Strasbourg. Prof. Dr. Didier Chabaud, President Jan Rembowski, International Delegate Elif Bugdaycıoglu, ODTÜ TEKNOKENT ATOM Program Manager Eric Briole, CEO Omer Hiziroglu, Diffusion Capital Partner 13:30-14:30 Lunch Afternoon 14:30 - Closing Remarks: How to foster Innovation? YÖK (CoHE) Prof. Dr. Hasan Mandal, Executive Board Member European Foundation for Cluster Excellence Henri Varlet 15:30-17:30 - Visit of ODTÜ Teknokent - Matching between French and Turkish participants in the same fields 15:30-16:15 SDT - ODTU TEKNOKENT Defense Industry Cluster Firm 16:30-17:30 MEMS - Micro-Electro - Mechanical Systems Research And Application Center End of the French Turkish Innovation Transfer Days The conference will be held in English, no translation will be provided

Speakers Prof. Dr. Ahmet Acar, ODTU - Rector He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. His research interests are quantitative decision tools, strategic management, small business management, innovation management, entrepreneurial management. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ilker Murat Ar, Director of Science and Technology Directorate at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Industry in Turkey Dr. Ar is the General Director of Science and Technology in the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology. The Directorate General of Science and Technology provides different support programs such as Techno-Initiative Capital Support Program, Industrial Thesis Support Program, Technoparks and R&D Centers which aim promoting technological entrepreneurship and private sector R&D activities. Dr. Ismail Ari, Istanbul Teknopark - General Manager Dr. Ismail Ari is the General Manager of Teknopark Istanbul. He received his PhD degree from University of California, Santa Cruz. His research interests include big data, cloud computing, data mining, and storage systems. He has several awards and research grants including IBM Top Faculty Contributor Award, EU Marie Curie IRG, and TÜBITAK (Turkish NSF) National Young Researcher Career Award. Dr. Ari is a member of IEEE, ACM and a founding member of the IBM Cloud Academy. Ufuk Batum, Founder of VENTURES & MENTORS LEAGUE He received his B.Sc. degree in mechanical engineering from Bosphorus University in Istanbul. He has been working for the last 28 years in the private sector as well as in public sector projects in various countries. He has held director, general manager, managing director, CEO, founder positions in the companies and institutions he worked for. He is also a well-known mentor for technology based start-ups and helping them to commercialize and internationalize their products and services. In addition, he is advising several national and international institutions and bodies, such as NATO, TIM, TUBITAK, UN, TI, EIB and some chambers of commerce and industry. He is currently delivering an Entrepreneurship course (also Management, Marketing and Family Business courses from time to time) at Middle East Technical University (METU). Batum has worked as the Vice President of the Science and Technology Park of METU (ODTU TEKNOKENT) until September 2015. Has has recently left this position to pursue his interest as an entrepreneur by creating VENTURES & MENTORS LEAGUE. Prof. Dr. Madjid Bouzar, University of Strasbourg - ITIRI - Head of the International Relations Studies Department and co-director of the European Center of research and competences in Cluster Management Madjid Bouzar has been the head of the ITIRI s International Relations Studies Department (Strasbourg University - France) since 25 years. He has developed several masters degrees programs that he is the director or the co-director of, such as cluster management or cooperation and development. He is the co-director of the European Center of Research and competences

in Cluster Management, network of experts and researchers created in France, Germany and Switzerland. Eric Briole, Efficient Innovation - President Eric Briole is the founding President of Efficient Innovation that he created in 2004. He also created the Consultancy in Innovation Association; he is a member of honor. He is Managing Partner at Nova-Immo SA, and Managing Partner at Efficient Executive SARL. He is on the Board of Directors at Medtech SAS.He received his undergraduate degree from Université de Technologie de Compiègne and a graduate degree from Université Paris Dauphine. Elif Bugdaycioglu, ODTU TEKNOKENT - ATOM, Program manager Elif Bugdaycioglu graduated from Middle East Technical University (METU) Civil Engineering Department in 2001. In 2007, she co-founded Zibumi, to design and develop memorable games. Zibumi is one of the first groups to be accepted to Animation and Game Development Pre- Incubation Center (ATOM) in ODTU TEKNOKENT in 2008. She was also selected in top 25 entrepreneurs among 6000 female entrepreneurs by KAGIDER in 2012. She represented Zibumi in Chicago, New York and San Francisco based bootcamps and demo days, within the context of ODTU TEKNOKENT TeknoJumpp. Elif Bugdaycioglu started working as the program manager of ATOM in September 2013. Since then, she has been supporting developers to chase their dreams and turn their ideas into business. Didier Chabaud, Professor of Management Sciences at the University of Avignon Didier Chabaud is Past-President of the French Academy of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and Professor of Management Sciences at the University of Avignon (France). He is also currently co- Editor-in-chief of the Revue de l entrepreneuriat (a French Peer-reviewed Journal). His research works are focusing on the dynamics of entrepreneurial processes (creation, business transfer and growth), business support, and family business. Dr. Ercan Çitil, Technology Transfer Office GM, ITUNOVA TTO He has got his Ph.D in Environmental Engineering Program of ITU Graduate School of Science Engineering and Technology in 2009. He has been worked in several positions both governmental and private sector. He was responsible for the coordination of UNDP/GEF BSERP Activities throughout the country during 2003-2007. He is currently working as General Manager in ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office. His Excellency the Ambassador of France to Turkey, Mister Charles Fries Recently named Ambassador of France to Turkey (since August 2015), Charles Fries was the French Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco (May 2012- August 2015). Previously he was the diplomatic counsellor to the Prime Minister François Fillon. He is a former student of the National School of Administration, 1989 Liberty- Equality- Brotherhood graduating class. He also graduated from the National School of Music of Paris (piano). Dr. Omar Hammami, Med Plan Head - SYSTEMATIC ICT Paris - Region Cluster Omar Hammami is an expert in complex systems and system engineering. He has served as an expert for projects evaluation for several international organizations in the field of system engineering with applications in transport and energy, cluster and inter-cluster strategy and international cooperation. He is in charge of the Mediterranean Plan for Systematic ICT Paris- Region French Cluster.

He has established models of cluster composition with emphasis of SME/VSME and value chains across clusters and regions and is working towards Mediterranean inter-clusters B2B platforms and strategies. Omar Hammami has published over 200 papers in international conferences and journals in the fields of computer science and system engineering for complex systems. He is involved on a regular basis in the organization of several conferences and events worldwide related to large scale systems. He is actually involved in MENA region for Large Scale System Engineering projects. He holds a Phd in Computer Science from Toulouse University, France and a HDR in Physics from Orsay University, France. Dr. Christophe Haunold, SATT Toulouse Tech Transfer - Deputy General Manager Dr Christophe HAUNOLD is the deputy General manager of Toulouse Tech Transfer, one of the new Tech Transfer Acceleration companies dedicated to French public research. The design of this company has been his responsibility, when he was Director of the Toulouse University Tech Transfer Office. He was the president of the C.U.R.I.E network (French national association for public research valorisation and transfer) between 2011 and 2014. He has been educated as a Chemical Engineer (1987), and holds a PhD (INP Toulouse). C. Haunold has been working for industrial liaison and public research transfer and commercialisation for 23 years. Omer Hiziroglu, Diffusion Capital Partners - Partner Omer is a partner with Diffusion Capital Partners ( DCP ), an early stage venture capital fund operating out of Istanbul. Previously he was the General Manager of Inovent, a technology transfer fund based in Istanbul and advised various universities and companies on Intellectual Property rights and technology transfer matters. He is named among world s top 300 IP Strategists by IAM Magazine. Omer has a BA in Economics and International relations from Tufts University, Massachusetts. He has a European Union Law master s degree (LL.M) from University of Geneva, Switzerland and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.Omer is one of the founding members of the Galata Business Angels Network (GBA) and a member of AUTM and ASTP. Prof. Mehmet Karaca, ITU - Rector Having completed his PhD degree in 1990 in University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, he served as an assistant professor at ITU Faculty of Mining - Geology Department as an assistant professor(1992-1993), in Geology Department and Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences between 1993 and 1999; and held the title of full professorship in Climate and Marine Sciences Department since 1997. He is a member of American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, National Geographic Society (USA) and WWF Turkey. Christophe Lecante, TKM - Founder & CEO President at IHEST (Institute on Higher Education on Science and Technology). VP Innovation at Comité Richelieu. Christophe Lecante holds a Master s Degree in Economics from Pantheon Sorbonne University and a Master of Business Administration from NEOMA Business School - Sup de Co Reims (91). At first appointed in Canada, he successively works as Head of Technology Watch, Head of Strategic Marketing, and finally as Sales and Marketing Manager. Afterwards he moved to the operational field and managed several Business Units with up to 500 employees in the aeronautical industry. In 2003 he creates TKM a start up from Grenoble University, in the field of Big Data and Data Visualization applied to patents and scientific publications, and leads many missions in innovation management, technological watch, technology transfer and IP valorization. In 2013 he was appointed as Chairman of the Board at IHEST (Institute on Higher Education on Science and Technology).

Florent Longa, Echy - Co-Founder Graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and the Imperial College of London in Environmental Engineering in 2012, he founded the start-up ECHY with two partners in 2010. He took the direction of Research and Development. ECHY now employs 10 collaborators and bears innovation as a founding value. In March 2012 ECHY joined the Descartes incubator located in Paris Region. Prof. Dr. Hasan Mandal, YÖK (CoHE) - Executive Board Member Hasan Mandal (Prof. Dr.) received his BSc from Middle East Technical University (Turkey) in 1987 and PhD from University of Newcastle (UK) in 1992. He was Vice President and Director of Research and Graduate Policies at Sabanci University/Istanbul (2011-2015). He was also Board Member in Gebze Technopark, Inovent, Vice President of University-Industry Collaboration Centers Platform (USIMP), Board Member of TUBITAK - TTO Group. He is currently serving as Executive Board Member of Council of Higher Education (CoHE), BFUG Member for Turkey, EUA Representative for CoHE, Coordinator of University-Industry Collaboration Commission of CoHE. Smaïl Niar, University of Valenciennes, France - Researcher Smail NIAR is a researcher at the University of Valenciennes and co-supervisor of the «Intelligent infrastructure and vehicle» task within the International Campus on Safety and Inter-modality in Transportation. He is also in charge of International Relationships at Institute of Sciences and Technics ISTV of the University of Valenciennes. He has been a professor at University of Valenciennes since 2008 and between 2013 and 2014 was a visiting Professor at Bogazici University s Computer Eng. Department. Emre Özbek, ITÜ ARI Teknokent Incubation Center Coordinator and Managing Partner of Istanbul Startup Angels Emre Özbek is angel investor, mentor and advisor to startups, following 20 years of corporate senior level experience, and recently intrapreneurship and innovation. He is sharing his experience in global corporate environments and providing guidance and support for entrepreneurs and startup ventures in innovative business models and technologies. Emre is specialised in business model design, strategy and risk management, partnership programme management and entrepreneurial finance as well as investment and governance. He is a partner at Istanbul Startup Angels. Tolga Özbolat, ODTU Teknokent - TTO Director He launched his career at ODTÜ Teknokent in 2010 as the Director of the Project Office where FP7 projects are written and managed. Once ODTÜ Teknokent decided to enlarge the vision of collaboration, he was assigned as Director of Collaboration Operations on Technology as well as the Director of Technology Transfer Office. Throughout his career, he has been working in an international environment and he speaks fluent English and French. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Öztürk, ibg Izmir - Director Prof. Mehmet Öztürk is a Molecular Biologist and currently serves as the Founding Director of Izmir Biomedicine and Genome Center (ibg-izmir) and Izmir International Biomedicine and Genome Institute (ibg-institute) at Dokuz Eylül University, Izmir, Turkey. Prof. Öztürk obtained a Pharmacist degree from Gazi University Faculty of Pharmacy, Ankara (1974), and a Biochemistry PhD degree from Paris University (1985). Prof. Öztürk s research is on molecular mechanisms of cancer.

Jan Rembowksi, EURECOM - International Delegate M.A Applied Linguistics, MSc GIS and MRes Information Systems. Between 2002 and 2012 was Director of MSc and International Relations in TELECOM Paristech and Eurecom. Professor in Masters courses in Beijing UIBE, Tongji Shanghai where he is Honoury Professor, Telecom ParisTech, AgroParisTech, NU Vietnam at HCM and business and engineering schools in France. Was previously Director of Department of Information Systems for Management at Reims Management School. For 7 years was Consultant for public authorities in GIS across Europe. At present is International Delegate for Eurecom in International partnerships and strategy. Joel Sahler, France Cluster - Vice-president Joël SAHLER, born in 1946 in France, mechanical and electronical ingineer have been CEO of several small and medium sizeindustrial companies since 1984 (owner of AUGERON TCOL since 1996). He participated to the creation of the cluster Reseau Mesure in 2002 (as president since 2004). He joined France Cluster in 2006 ( as vice-president since 2013).Réseau Mesure was created in 2002 by 7 companies, this cluster has now 125 members. All of them dealing with measure instruments and process. The main goal is to increase the member s companies efficiency implementing collective actions (each subject being requested by the members) with added value. Thank to help from several national, regional and local authorities, Reseau Mesure has now reach its financial autonomy. Prof. Dr. Hamit Serbest, President of USIMP (University - Industry Cooperation Centers Platform of Turkey) and Director of Adana USAM (University-Industry Joint Research Center) Prof. Dr. Hamit Serbest is the Director of Adana USAM (University-Industry Joint Research Center) and the President of the Board of USIMP (University Industry Cooperation Centers Platform of Turkey), that he founded in 2007From 2003 to 2006 he was Advisor to the President of TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) in planning knowledge transfer tools for universities and the industry; representing TUBITAK in the Board of the university-industry intermediary bodies financially supported by TUBITAK. Gökçe Tabak, ITÜ ARI Teknokent - COO Graduate of Istanbul Technical University Mechanical Engineering. He continued his education in MBA and Ph.D in Marketing Management. Worked in globally leader market research company Nielsen for 10 years as Vice General Manager and led operations for key accounts in EMEA region. He s one of the top experts of Turkey in understanding needs of markets and pinpointing opportunities. Built two Start-ups and currently mentoring and coaching many Start-ups. Gokce Tabak, married and father of two kids, is extremely satisfied of being part of Turkish entrepreunership ecosystem and ITÜ ARI Teknokent as COO. Nuray Tanis, Teknopark Istanbul - TTO Director Nuray Tanis holds a B.Sc. degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and M.Sc. degree in Environmental Engineering from Marmara University. She spent most of her professional career by contributing to develop innovation capacities and internationalisation of SMEs at Mersin Tarsus Organized Industrial Zone. She worked as key expert in several regional innovation strategy and clustering projects granted by FP6, FP7 and other EU funding programmes. She has also been an entrepreneur and managed her own consulting business in Mersin Technopark for more than 4 years. Recently she became Manager of TTO of Teknopark Istanbul and going on to work both front end and back end of innovation.

Bora Tuncer, Country President - Schneider Electric Turkey Graduated from the Marmara University Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Department of Business Administration in English, Bora Tuncer started his career in Istanbul Office of Deloitte & Touche in 1994. Tuncer was responsible for auditing various companies according to the international standards for long years, and joined the Schneider Electric Turkey family in 2003 as the Country Finance Director. Tuncer was appointed as Vice President of Power Systems Business Line and Solution Center General Manager in 2010 and is the Schneider Electric Turkey Country President since March 2013. Dr. Emin Turan, Sanofi - Director for Turkey and Iran Dr.Turan is a Senior Executive in Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology (Vaccines) Industry, with a broad international and corporate experience spanning over Turkey, USA, South Korea, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Iran markets and corporate headquarters strategic functions. He has a broad and hands-on international experience on Market Access, Business Development, Alliance Management, local manufacturing project development with Technology Transfer, Public-Private- Partnerships and Joint Ventures. He is the General Manager of Turkey & Iran Sub-Region Sanofi Pasteur A.S. since February 2014. Prof. Dr. Fazilet Vardar Sukan, Vice President of USIMP (University - Industry Cooperation Centers Platform of Turkey) and Director of EBILTEM (Ege University Technology Transfer Office) Professor Fazilet VARDAR SUKAN is the founding head of Ege University, Faculty of Engineering Department of Bioengineering. She is also the Director of Ege University Science and Technology Centre (EBILTEM). She has wide experience in project management, private sector development, technology transfer, innovation management and in supporting growth SMEs. She has also acted the National Coordinator for two European Patent Office supported projects Increasing the IPR Awareness in Turkish Universities and Pilot Project for Re-structuring Pat-Lib Centres. Currently she is also the Deputy General Manager of Ege University Technopark and vice-president of the National Platform for University-Industry Collaboration Centers Platform (USIMP). Henri Varlet, European Foundation for Cluster Excellence - Senior Manager Henri Varlet joined the European Foundation for Cluster Excellence in 2012. Leading Cluster Reinforcement Initiatives since 2008, his most recent assignments took place within the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and the Euromed programme. Henri has over 10 years of experience working in technology and strategy consulting. A Senior Consultant at Accenture Paris and Deloitte Chicago, he intervened for a wide range of fortune 500 companies and the French State on business transformation and operational issues. Henri holds an MBA from INSEAD. He is a regular speaker in cluster related conferences held by international programs and bodies such as H2020 or the Union for the Mediterranean.

FRENCH-TURKISH INNOVATION TRANSFER DAYS Istanbul 19 th of November 2015 Ankara 20 th of November 2015