News
13 May 2013
MIT University`s First Female President Susan Hockfield visiting TEPAV on 14th of May



21 February 2013
StartUp Cup: Customers, Capital and Confidence



7 February 2013
The Participants of Applied Technology Commercialization Program has been announced!



21 January 2013
İyiYatırım Ankara Summit

11th January, 2013

21 November 2012
Entrepreneurship Policies Discussed at TEPAV

The conference was inaugurated by TOBB President Hisarcıklıoğlu and US Ambassador Ricciardone.

30 October 2012
GEP- Turkey Brought Together, Entrepreneurs Found Business Angels

One of the entrepreneurships which make profit from meeting the American investors at the beginning of summer was “WeDecide”, which provides business developmenOne of the enterprises that came out ahead after the meeting with the American investors at the beginning of summer was “WeDecide”, which provides business development with the customer-brand dialogue. t with the customer-brand mark dialogue.

28 October 2012
Myths and Realities about Women Entrepreneurship: Many CEOs, Few Employers, Small Labor Force

Meeting held as part of the GEP - Turkey hosted Minister Fatma Şahin and US Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone.

15 October 2012
In Startup Weekend, the two teams shared the championship; “Kitap Canavarı” and “Keyf-i Seyyah”



28 September 2012
TEPAV supports to the future of Izmir…



3 September 2012
Founder Institute has started receiving applications to Istanbul Incubation Program!



29 August 2012
Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in Turkey: An Overview



27 August 2012
Özyeğin University announces its Master’s program in Entrepreneurship.



23 August 2012
Applications for the 2nd Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) competition has started!



13 August 2012
Entrepreneurship Delegation to Turkey (EDEL) was completed with a great success.



18 May 2012
Donna Fenn Media Training



25 April 2012
The Agenda of EDEL’s Turkey Visit



28 March 2012
The internet entrepreneurs in Istanbul are at Tünel Otto!



8 March 2012
Umit Ozlale academic adviser to GEP Turkey participated Roundtable on Entrepreneurship Education (REE) organized by Standford’s “Technology Ventures Program” and United Arab Emirates’ Higher Education Institution “Higher Colleges of Technology” in Abu Dhabi on 27-28 February 2012



7 March 2012
Umit Ozlale, academic adviser to GEP Turkey, chairs a TUBITAK workshop on entrepreneurship in Turkish universities



29 February 2012
Global Entrepreneurship Program Turkey is organizing its first start-up journalism workshop on March 27th, 2012 at 10 am.



2 February 2012
An MOU has been signed between GEP Partners CRDF Global and MIT Enterprise Forum Turkey to cooperate in the field of entrepreneurship in Turkey.



3 January 2012
Israel Model Addressed for “Matchmaking” US-Turkish Companies in R&D

Applicability of the model that successfully matched the US and Israeli firms for R&D projects to Turkey discussed.

16 December 2011
TOBB Sessions Became a Great Success at the 2nd Global Entrepreneurship Summit

TOBB sessions at the second Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Istanbul, first of which was held in Washington, received great attention.

16 December 2011
Turkey’s Fastest Growing 25 Companies Were Identified

The results of the Turkey Fast Growth 25 that aims to identify the fastest growing companies of Turkey were announced at the 2nd Global Entrepreneurship Summit.

14 December 2011
Entrepreneurial Ecosystem from Istanbul to Lahore

The Pakistan – Turkey Entrepreneurs Forum took place during the second Global Summit on Entrepreneurship

13 December 2011
The CRDF Global “GIST Tech-I” Winners Announced at 2nd Global Entrepreneurship Summit



9 December 2011
Fund Owners Got Together for Turkey at the 2nd Global Entrepreneurship Summit

An insider’s roundtable meeting was organized to discuss the obstacles for entrepreneurship in Turkey.

14 November 2011
“Fund of Funds” to Support “Breathless” Entrepreneurs …

TEPAV gives support to efforts to establish a fund that brings together the business world and the public sector to support entrepreneurs who have ideas but lack financial means.

1 November 2011
Istanbul Forum Convened for Women Entrepreneurs

The Istanbul Forum aims at developing the dialogue between Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan via bringing together the respective business circles convened for women entrepreneurs.

4 October 2011
Jose Fernandez, the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of State listened to “The Entrepreneurship in Turkey

Jose Fernandez, the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of State came together with the representatives from institutions active in the area of entrepreneurship in Turkey.

15 September 2011
Carl Schramm, President of the Kauffman Foundation, the world’s largest entrepreneurship foundation, supported the mobilization of entrepreneurship that Turkey launched during his visit to the country.



12 September 2011
GEP-Turkey Determined Its Road Map for Supporting Entrepreneurship

During the visit of Steven Koltai, the director of the Global Entrepreneurship Program – USA, the activities of GEP’s Turkey branch has been determined. The program is coordinated in Turkey by TEPAV.

27 June 2011
Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School speaks on government policies to foster entrepreneurship

Delivering a speech at a meeting organized by Turkcell, Lerner said “While entrepreneurship or venture capital does not flourish in vacuum, ‘listening to the market’ emerges as a key common theme in all the successful government initiatives”

22 June 2011
In the context of the Global Entrepreneurship Program to be carried out by TOBB, TEPAV and the US Embassy in Ankara, important events to encourage entrepreneurship in Turkey will be held.



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