BUTEKOM and BUU TTO Collaborate for R&D and Innovation
A cooperation protocol was signed between Bursa Technology Coordination and R&D Center (BUTEKOM) and Bursa Uludağ University Technology Transfer Office, which gained a different identity with the vision provided by Bursa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BTSO).
The event was held in BUTEKOM’s Demirtaş Industrial Zone Service Building with the attendance of BUU Rector Professor Ahmet Saim Guide, BTSO Chairman İbrahim Burkay and a number of academicians. BTSO Chairman Burkay stated that the global competition is increasing day by day and said, “As BTSO, we are developing holistic projects for Bursa, the city of the future, in cooperation with Bursa Uludağ University, which has the vision of a university integrated with the city. Our university, which is among the leading actors in our sectoral councils, which is something completely new in Turkey, contributes to our development goals by coming together with the business world around the collective intelligence platform.”
“We aim to bring academic knowledge into the economy ”
Noting that the way to move Bursa to the position it deserves in the world is through spreading the culture of R&D, innovation and design, Chairman Burkay said, “ULUTEK, which adds strength to Bursa’s economy with the added-value it produces, and the Technology Transfer Office, which provides important services to our companies in terms of protection of intellectual property rights, bring our university and business world under the same roof and for common goals. We carry out many activities in Bursa to transfer academic knowledge into the real industry. Our centers of excellence, which we have implemented under BUTEKOM, aim to bring the academic knowledge of our university into our economy. With this protocol we signed, BUTEKOM and Bursa Uludağ University will achieve new collaborations in the field of textiles, technical textiles, fiber and polymer technologies and composite materials. The cooperation for information and technology developed in BUTEKOM will accelerate the commercialization efforts. We will accelerate the transformation of technologies, which will offer solutions to the problems of the industry, into economic value with the synergy we have created. This cooperation includes the principles of consulting, training, research, joint project preparation and execution with the aim of increasing the R&D capacity of our domestic industry. I wish the protocol to be beneficial both to Bursa and our country.”
“We finalize our cooperation with Butekom”
Bursa Uludağ University’s Rector Professor Ahmet Saim Guide stated that BUTEKOM is an important center for R&D in Bursa adding, “Our universities are the intelligence of Bursa. We can put forward scientific knowledge and common sense for the sake of Bursa’s development in every field. I hope we will make every effort to transfer this accumulation into the society and the industry. Our cooperation with BTSO continues. And we are finalizing our cooperation with this protocol signed with BUTEKOM. Bursa will benefit more from the combination of the industry’s know-how with that of the university. I believe that this protocol we signed will help Bursa to acghieve its goals.
After the speeches, BTSO Chairman İbrahim Burkay and BUU Rector Professor Ahmet Saim Rehber signed the protocol. Following the signing of the protocol, a delegation consisting of academicians from Bursa Uludağ University visited BUTEKOM and Bursa Model Factory.
