It will be held in Informatics Valley for those who add value to Kocaeli, where a large ecosystem has been established with 650 thousand employees and an export of 18 billion dollars.Those Who Add Value to Kocaeli, the Center of Technology and Industry” award ceremony; will bring together all components in the fields of industry, technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Hakki Alkan and Basak Sengulwill host and President Recep Tayyip ErdoganThe ceremony will be held under the coordination of the Ministry of Industry and Technology with the contributions of Kocaeli Governorship, Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality, Kocaeli Chamber of Industry and Informatics Valley.
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Those Who Add Value to Kocaeli, the Center of Technology and Industry
The ceremony, hosted by the Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank, will bring together the industrialists and those who build the technology of the future, and will reveal the point Turkey has reached in this field in the last 20 years.
President Erdoğan will give awards to technology companies and industrial establishments that are successful in employment, export and investment categories. Turkey’s most active venture capital funds and angel investment funds and Turkey’s most active mass investment fund will also be rewarded.
Kocaeli exports 18 billion dollars annually with 650 thousand employees and 8 thousand enterprises in the manufacturing industry. Approximately 40 percent of the total vehicle production in 2021 is in Kocaeli carried out. The province, which has 14 Organized Industrial Zones, 2 Free Zones, and 1 Industrial Zone, is in the most strategic position of Turkey with its ports and logistics centers.
It has become a technopark center
Being one of the most important regions for the vision of the National Technology Move, the city hosts TÜBİTAK Marmara Research Center (MAM), Turkish Standards Institute (TSE) Quality Campus, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli Health and Technology University, Gebze Technical University and 128 R&D centers. and the base for 15 Design Centers.
in Kocaeli; There are 5 Technology Development Zones: Informatics Valley, TUBITAK Marmara Technopolis (MARTEK), Gebze Organized Industrial Zone Technopark, Kocaeli University Technopark and Gebze Technical University Technopark. These regions make significant contributions to domestic and national production.
Informatics Valley, one of them and where the ceremony was organized, was brought to life with the aim of making Turkey a producer of new technologies. Informatics Valley, which was officially opened by President Erdogan in 2019, Today, with 311 companies, especially Togg continues on its way.
Informatics Valley also has campuses in Istanbul and Izmir. Informatics Valley, which mainly focuses on civilian technologies; It creates a new ecosystem together with entrepreneurs by carrying out activities in areas such as digitalization, software and games.