M. İrşadi AksunVice President for Research and Development

KOÇ UNIVERSITY

Office of Vice President for R&D

OVERVIEW

• VPRD Office in brief

• Research, Project Development and Technology Transfer Directorate

• Project development process

• Research Projects at Koc University

• Q & A

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VPRD Office

• is responsible for University’s research policies, with a specific goal to significantly increase externally sponsored research and strengthen Koç University’s position in research.

• The following offices report to the VPRD:Research, Project Development and TT

DirectorateResearch CentersGraduate Institutes

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VPRD - Research, Project Development and TT Directorate

Grants ManagerŞebnem DOĞAN

University Industry Collaboration

Specialist Suna Akbayır

Research, Project Development and

Teknology Transfer Director

Elif Ebru TAN

Senior Technology Transfer Specialist

Anıl DURMUŞ

Grants Financial Manager

Meltem İşanlar

Incubation Center CoordinatorBurak YAMAN

Vice President,Research & Development

VPRDİrşadi AKSUN

Consultant to VPRD

Enis ERKEL

Incubation Center Director

Mustafa ERGEN

Incubation Center EngineerOnur SAYGILI

Office Support Ebru HATİPOĞLU

Grants SpecialistAşkım DEMİRYÜREK

Assistant Grants SpecialistsNazlı BASKAN

Özlem DEĞİRMENCİAssistant Grants Financial Specialist

Meltem TAŞTechnology Transfer Manager

Senior Grants SpecialistEmrah GÖKER

Senior Grants Financial SpecialistZeynep Neyza AKÇABAY

Koç Üniversitesi RPD & TT Directorate

MODULE 1: Awareness Building, Training and Seminars

MODULE 2: Sponsored Research Support Services

MODULE 3: University-Industry Relations, Project Development and Management

Services

MODULE 4: IP Rights, Management and Licencing Services

MODULE 5: Entrepreneurship and New Venture Development Services

• Research Support: Tracking & Info-distribution on external funding Eligibility check for national & international project

calls Matching research interests with call priorities Assistance in

• procedures for funding applications• preparation for a succesful proposal (EU research

strategies, Lisbon strategy)• partner search • legal advice (e.g. Contracts, IP Rights)

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Research, Project Development & Technology Transfer Services

• Research Support (Cont’d): Assistance in implementation of research

projects:

• preparing• monitoring• reporting, and• resolving problems on

your project budget.

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Research, Project Development & Technology Transfer Services

• Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration:

Matchmaking activities between researchers & industry reps

Networking with industry reps for collaboration in projects (externally funded or industry-funded)

Aiding industry in procuring services from KU research facilities

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Research, Project Development & Technology Transfer Services

• Technology Transfer Activities:

Assessing commercial potential of developed technologies at KU

Assisting researchers in technology commercialization

Guidance in protection of Technologies with proper IP mechanisms

Inventram: Our strategic partner in IP issues

KU Incubation Center: offers consultancy services for new venture development and entrepreneurship

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Research, Project Development & Technology Transfer Services

• Technology Transfer Activities (Cont’d): Assistance in:

• Invention disclosure, patent application & licensing procedures

• Legal issues regarding IP ownership

• IP-based start-up formation / entrepreneurship

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Research, Project Development & Technology Transfer Services

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• RPDTTD kindly asks your cooperation: Inform us before you apply for external funding

Please give us enough time to support you through applications

If KU will be the signatory, we have to be involved in your proposal development & submission process

Let’s discuss your budget – we can make your job easier

Share your correspondence, official letters, declarations i.e., all documentations, related to your project’s implementation

Research, Project Development & Technology Transfer Services

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• For your external funding needs, contact us:

TÜBİTAK schemes: Aşkım Demiryürek (ademiryurek@) & Nazlı Baskan (nbaskan@)

ISTKA schemes: Özlem Değirmenci (odegirmenci@)

Private sector schemes: Suna Akbayır (sakbayir@)

All international & other national funding: Şebnem Doğan (for SoM, SoN, CE; sebnemdogan@) & Emrah Göker (for CASE, CSSH, LS, CS; egoker@)

Active international grants & financial matters: Meltem İşanlar (misanlar@) & Zeynep Akçabay (zakcabay@)

IPR issues: Anıl Durmuş (adurmus@)

Your Incubation Center contact: Burak Yaman (burakyaman@)

Research, Project Development & Technology Transfer Services

5487 Students (4642 UG+404 MS/MA+441 PhD)

491 Faculty (259 Professoriate + Instructors)

73% of students on scholarship

KU’s KEY R&D FIGURES

18 Doctoral Degree Programs

30 Masters Degree Programs

22 Undergraduate Degree Programs

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Observation 1.3:= 2.4% success in P&ES

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1. No success in SS&H - 0 out of 4 KU’s SS&H programs are strong; Need to increase the number of applications; HOW?

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1. 95% KU Faculty received their PhDs from North American Universities

Þ Lack of Research Network in EU

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2. TUBITAK has a series of great programs for faculty projects with small, medium and large budgets

Þ Lack of Motivation for ERC

Koç Univ.: Diagnoses

Create freest environment that fosters collaborative and interdisciplinary research

Seed research (Thematic and general) Interdisciplinary seminars

Recruit the best among talented and diverse applicant pools

Result is a high caliber faculty High caliber faculty excel in R&D

KU’s RESEARCH STRATEGY

Recognition of Excellence in Research

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High caliber faculty; lots of R&D projects; require expansion of PhD programs

Recruitment of PhD students in the global marketplace is a major challenge

Lack of jobs for PhD graduates in industry, especially in Turkey, presents serious hindrance

KU’s RESEARCH STRATEGY

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1. 95% KU Faculty received their PhDs from North American Universities

Þ Lack of Research Network in EU

Þ Lack of Recognition in EU

Koç Univ.: Diagnoses & Remedies

KU has instituted mobility funds for faculty to visit partner universities in EU

Establish JD/DD PhD programs with research universities in EU

2. TUBITAK has a series of great programs for faculty projects with small, medium and large budgets

Þ Lack of Motivation for ERC

Koç Univ.: Diagnoses & Remedies

DO UNIVERSITIES NEED TO ESTABLISH REWARDS FOR EXTERNAL GRANTS ?

Mismatch between what science knows and what business does

What Motivates Human Beings to Create? Harry F. Harlow, University of Wisconsin, 1949 Douglas McGregor, MIT, 1960 Edward Deci, University of Rochester, 1969 Theresa M. Amabile, Harvard Business School, 1996 Carol S. Dweck, Stanford University, 1999 Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, University of Chicago, 2000 Brian Knutson, Stanford University, 2001 Dan Ariely, MIT, 2008 Michael I. Norton, Harvard Business School, 2008

………. many more

Mismatch between what science knows and what business does

When money is used as an external reward for some activity, the subjects lose intrinsic interest for the activity;

Extrinsic rewards can be effective for routine algorithmic tasks, but for creativity and inventiveness, contingent rewards can be dangerous;

Human beings have an inherent tendency to seek out novelty and challenges, to extend and exercise their capacities, to explore and to learn;

Intrinsic motivation is conducive to creativity, controlling extrinsic motivation is detrimental to creativity;

REWARDS & PUNISHMENT or CARROT & STICK

Conclusions*

1. Imagine it is 1996, you ask the following question to an accomplished business school professor:

“I am going to describe two new encyclopedias, one just out, the other to be launched in a few years. You have to predict which will be more successful in 2014.”

- The first one comes from Microsoft, already a large and profitable company;

- The second one won’t come from a company, will be created by people who write and edit articles for fun.

* Daniel H. Pink, Drive, Riverhead Books, New York 2009

Result:

- In 2009, Microsoft pulled the plug on MSN Encarta;

- Wikipedia ended up becoming the largest and most popular encyclopedia in the world, more than 17 million articles in 270 languages.

Message:

- Innovation requires “Out of Box” thinking

- “Carrots and Sticks” might be a wrong approach for human motivation and innovation

Conclusions

Conclusions*

2. Is all-volunteer & all-amateur encyclopedia the only instance of its kind ?

- Web browser Firefox has more than 350 Million users;

- Linux operating system now powers one in four corporate servers;

- Apache software has 52% share of the corporate web server market;

- you can find: open-source cookbooks; open-source textbooks; open-source car design; open-source legal briefs; open-source cola !!! ….

* Daniel H. Pink, Drive, Riverhead Books, New York 2009

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