08/07/2015
Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Fikri Işık: “Sabancı University won 88.40 points to become Turkey's most entrepreneurial and innovative university in 2015.”
At a press conference in TÜBİTAK, Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Fikri Işık revealed the 2015 TÜBİTAK Entrepreneurial and Innovative Universities Index that lists the top 50 entrepreneurial and innovative universities in Turkey. Sabancı University is the winner of the 2015 Index, and had topped the inaugural index revealed in 2012.
Sabancı University increased its score in four of the five aspects considered for the index while maintaining its score in the last aspect, achieving a 7-point increase for a total score of 88.40.
The top five of the index are: Sabancı University in first place with 88.40 points; Middle East Technical University in second place with 85.96 points; Boğaziçi University in third place with 79.66 points; İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University in fourth place with 78.10 points; and Koç University in fifth place with 76.44 points.
The "University Entrepreneurship and Innovation Index" consists of 5 aspects, namely scientific and technological research competence, intellectual property, cooperation and interaction, entrepreneurship and innovation culture, and economic contribution and commercialization.