Organizing Turkey Innovation Week in order to create innovation consciousness in Turkey, Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TİM) and Exporters’ Union put ‘ InoSuit-Innovation-Based Mentoring Project ’ into action. This project aims to increase the ability for innovation management in exporter firms, value added production and raising exportation to the highest level and improving university-industry cooperation even more.
In the ‘InoSuit-Innovation-Based Mentoring Project’ put into action by TİM, 43 firms take place throughout Turkey with 7 of them being a member of Ege Exporters’ Union. Within the scope of the project, universities and academicians working on Innovation topic are matched with exporter firms.The cooperation which will be carried on with academicians experienced about innovation and firms will support the development of firms’ conciousness of innovation. 50% of this consulting service’s cost will be covered by exporters’ union which is a member of TİM and the other half will be covered by the firms themselves.
Stating that it is aimed to make exporter firms produce innovative outputs and transforming to a more value-added export in exportation with InoSuit Project, Ege Exporters’ Union Head Coordinator Sabri Ünlütürk expressed; ‘In the project, very valuable academicians focused on innovation will work half-day in the firms every week. They will create a new vision for our firms. At the end of this process, our biggest aim is the firms’ with no R&D Centre establishing an R&D Centre.’
Ünlütürk defended that in order Turkey to reach its 2023 year exportation goals, today’s exportation should be increased 3.5 fold on the basis of amount however, this is not possible in the remaining time. Ünlütürk continued his words thusly; ‘This is the reason why we have to focus on value-added exportation. It is a must for us to increase our exportation whose average kilogram is 1.6 dollars up to 3-4 range. For that reason, the works on R&D, Innovation and Design subjects are crucial. We expect at least 100 firms’ participation to ‘InoSuit-Innovation-Based Mentoring Project’ that will be performed in 2018.’
Some of the member companies of InoSuit-Innovation-Based Mentoring Project;
The companies which are a member of Ege Exporters’ Union attending to ‘InoSuit-Innovation-Based Mentoring Project’ are listed as such; Bizoya İç ve Dış Tic. Ltd. Şti., BMC Otomotiv San. Tic. A.Ş., Ekoten Tekstil San. Tic. A.Ş., Meltem Bebek ve Genç Mobilya San. Tic. A.Ş., Sarıgözoğlu Hidrolik Makina ve Kalıp Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş.; Söktaş Dokuma İşletmeleri San ve Tic A.Ş. ve Sun Tekstil San. ve Tic. A.Ş.