The Public-University-Industry Cooperation (KÜSİ) Planning and Development Board Meeting, organized by the Ankara Provincial Directorate of Industry and Technology, was held at OSTİM.
Collaboration is essential for innovation.
In his opening speech at the meeting, OSTİM Board Chairman Orhan Aydın reminded the audience that the foundations of industrialization in Ankara were laid with OSTİM.
Aydın, drawing attention to the achievements in the defense industry, emphasized that the Presidency of Defense Industry has taken ownership of the sector and achieved significant successes by creating an ecosystem in cooperation with universities, main industries, and SMEs.
Aydın stated that similar successes could not be achieved in the private sector, emphasizing that managers understood the importance of domestic production. Aydın said, "The only solution for producing high value-added, innovative products while doing domestic production is for universities, industry, and the public sector to be involved in the process together."
Aydın, mentioning the importance of university-industry and public sector collaborations (KÜSİ), explained that they are trying to implement collaborations through a clustering model in OSTİM. Aydın stated, "With the concept we call clustering in our region, we are trying to establish university-industry and public sector collaborations for our own companies and sectors. We are striving to improve and develop this."
Ankara Governor Vasip Şahin emphasized that simply planning tasks on paper is insufficient, and that these meetings should be viewed not as a periodic task but as a necessity for the sector. He stated: “Firstly, if we are on the side of the industrialists, we must hold these meetings as a necessity for ourselves; if we are on the side of the public sector, we must hold them as a platform and laboratory for transferring our knowledge and foundations to the future, and as an important need and opportunity. Otherwise, we will not be very successful in meeting what this nation and this country expect from us. We will also slow down our own progress considerably.”
Universities' knowledge must be transferred to the field.
Governor Şahin, noting that industrialists possess a significant wealth of experience, stated, “Our industrialists want to achieve something; they are very diligent. They take very big risks. Our universities also accumulate significant knowledge through internal and external education. However, there are no opportunities to transfer this knowledge to the field. The government, with good intentions, tries to do things and make regulations on its own. Whether these regulations are accurate or inaccurate depends on whether they are detached from the field. Therefore, if we consider that these three elements serve a single purpose, that of our people and the development of our country, we will all arrive at the right conclusion.”
Governor Şahin said, "Our industrialists now have a broader perspective than the public sector, and a greater capacity and vision for production and job creation than the public sector's experience."
Stating that one of Turkey's most important needs is to act in cooperation, Şahin noted that such organizations are also important in terms of everyone getting to know each other and supporting each other on the path to achieving the goal. Governor Şahin made the following assessment; "To the extent that they achieve their purpose, these meetings and formations will have fulfilled their function and been useful."
OSTİM is the region that best implements clustering.
Vasip Şahin stated that knowledge that does not contribute to production is worthless, emphasizing that industrialists, universities, and the public sector should cooperate, that meeting on common platforms would contribute to development, and that the clusters and groups that emerge in this way would create great wealth.
Ankara Governor Şahin, noting that OSTİM is the region that best implements clustering, emphasized the necessity of creating an organization that will bring together and make the best work together, and stressed that this should not remain only on paper. He stated, “I'm not saying let's not make plans, I'm saying let's take action. We need to focus directly on the result without stifling our dynamism or getting bogged down in bureaucratic procedures. As the Ankara Governorship, we are ready to offer all the resources at our disposal to our industrialists and universities, and we have a strong commitment in this regard. Our industrialists now have a broader perspective than the public sector, and a greater capacity and vision for production and job creation than the public sector. Our universities are also rapidly renewing themselves. They are in a dynamic state that can contribute to the world. Therefore, we do not claim to direct either the universities or the industrialists. We will help and support you. We will try to pave the way for you.”
At the meeting, Prof. Dr. Metin Salamcı from KÜSİ and Vehbi Konarılı, the Ankara Provincial Director of Industry and Technology, also evaluated the goals and actions determined in the Strategy Action Plan.
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