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İTÜ ARI Teknokent and the first paying customer
A university can help you build a technology. İTÜ ARI Teknokent has spent two decades assembling the people, places and introductions that help turn it into a business.
ODTÜ TEKNOKENT makes room for the next company
In Ankara, a university technology park puts researchers, founders and industrial buyers within reach of one another. The revealing detail is what it asks them to do once they get there.
Dan Venkatesan and the work after the exit
Ameex’s cofounder helped build a consultancy that brought more than 400 people into Perficient. His next chapter at Ampera returns to a question that runs through his career: how do you put talent to work?
Odiong Akpan and the work between the dots
A transmission engineer turned venture builder, Odiong Akpan keeps returning to the same problem: how to connect people, institutions and ideas so that something useful happens between them.
YTÜ Yıldız Teknopark puts an overseas address on Turkish ideas
A university can teach you to build a product. Yıldız Teknopark has assembled the offices, mentors and market connections to help you find someone who will buy it.
SPARK puts a workshop behind the business licence
In Sharjah, a research park pairs company formation with the tools to make something worth selling. Its most interesting promise begins where the paperwork ends.
Ubulu Africa and the work before the pitch
A Lagos venture builder is tackling the less glamorous side of African innovation: choosing startups, preparing founders and training the people who help them grow. Its InnoX platform puts that work into software.
Erciyes Teknopark Starts Before the Startup
In Kayseri, a university-linked technology park helps founders find an idea, build a prototype and meet investors. Its most revealing feature is how much work happens before there is a company to rent an office.
Connect wants Bogotá’s next big idea to find a buyer
The Colombian nonprofit brings universities, companies and entrepreneurs into the same room. Its real test comes afterward: turning introductions into technologies that businesses will actually use.