VIII International Seminar of the
Coimbra Group of Brazilian Universities
26 October 2016
High impact Research Development in
Asia and Europe
Melissa Abache
Global Engagement Coordinator
Koç University - Istanbul, Turkey
http://www.ku.edu.tr
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Koç University Facts and Figures
Founded in
1993
Private – not for
profit
Ranked 8th
best small
university, 36th
young
university, top
300 world
university
4 campuses
Comprehensive
112
Laboratories
16 Research
Centers
4 Research
Forums
400+ faculty
members
Research
intensive
25 Doctoral
programs
32 Master
programs
6.000+ students
10.000+ alumni
English
instruction
25%
international
students from
50 countries
(Graduate)
73% of students
receive
scholarship
77% have a job
before
graduation
ACADEMIC STRUCTURE
College of Administrative Sciences and Economics
College of Social Sciences and Humanities
College of Sciences
College of Engineering
School of Law
School of Nursing
School of Medicine
Graduate School of Sciences and Engineering
Graduate School of Business
Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Graduate School of Health Sciences
Koç University is the highest ranked young university
among the universities in the surrounding region,
as well as among the BRICS & Emerging Economies
Univ of Dundee-16
Swedish Uni of Agricultural Sci-26 Soochow Univ-101
Pohang Univ of
Science & Tech-5
Univ of Konstanz-7
Nat. Univ of Ireland-68
Ecole Poly-1
Univ of Calgary-18
Koç Univ-36
Rush Univ-22
Maastricht Univ-4
Pierre & Marie Curie Uni-9
Autonomous Barcelona-12
Univ of Aveiro-83
Scuola Superiore
Sant Anna-10
Univ of Campinas-61
Sharif Univ
of Tech-100
Univ of
Tsukaba-75
Univ of Crete-66
Univ of Cyprus-55
HKUST-3
King Abdulaziz
Univ-45
Indian Institute of
Technology-101
Taiwan
Tech-43
Nanyang
Tech-2
Univ of Technology
Sydney-21
Countries represented in ‘THE 150 Under 50’ according to the number
of universities and the highest ranked university in each country
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Koç University
 In only its 23rd year, KU has emerged a center of
excellence in education & research in the region
 Ranked 36th university in the world younger than
50 years; 9th among those younger than 25 !
 All 8 above KU are powerful government institutions !
 KU is the only university in the region with a
Medical School next to excellent other schools
 Uniquely positioned to explore overlaps of Medicine &
Engineering, Science, Social & Administrative Sciences
 Secret for KU success is its ‘start-up’ like agility,
devoid of government bureaucracy
 Motto is to create freest environment, hire best
faculty, recruit best students & get out of the way
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The Humboldtian Concept of the
Research University
 The University of Berlin, founded in
1810 under the influence of Wilhelm
von Humboldt, is the model of
Research University, featuring:
 Unity of teaching and research,
 Pursuit of higher learning in the
philosophy of faculty, freedom of study
for faculty and students
 The singular mission the research
university is to pursue scientific
knowledge
Wilhelm von
Humboldt
(1767-1835)
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Create & Protect the Free Environment
 University as a rendezvous between
generations; learn & teach in dialogue
 Create freest environment, hire best faculty,
recruit best students & get out of the way
 No norms or procedures: ‘Consistency is
the last refuge of the unimaginative’
 Minimize boundaries by not forming them in
the first place, no department chairs
 Encourage variety/innovation by delegation
 Liberate the many in spite of the few
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Hire the Best Faculty &
Incentivize
 Hiring & promotion of faculty is the key
 Outside letters from international peers
 Scholarship evaluated periodically
 Result is a high caliber faculty
 Recruitment becomes easier in time
 High caliber faculty excel in R&D
 Incentives for fruitful interaction with industry
 Faculty should emphasize ‘R’ rather than ‘D’
 Secret for KU success is its ‘start-up’ like agility,
devoid of government bureaucracy
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KOÇ UNIVERSITY FACULTY
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491 faculty (256 Professoriate + Instructors)
95% of full-time faculty have PhDs from leading
universities in North America & Europe;
remaining 5% from top Turkish universities
Most Young (<37 yrs) Scientist (GEBIP) Awards
from the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA)
Most Science and Encouragement Awards in the
last 5 years from the Scientific & Technological
Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)
Promote Interdisciplinary Thinking
 Encourage interdisciplinary thinking by
ensuring all departments are excellent
 Liberal arts education & encouraging
double majors at UG level
 At graduate level interdisciplinary thinking
is a matter of survival
 Governments & industry require it
 Encourage interaction among faculty with
seed research & interdisciplinary seminars
 Environment more important than niche
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University-Industry Relations
 In the context of rapidly growing Turkish
economy, the ‘culture’ of universityindustry relations badly lags behind
 Actually, fully beneficial win-win
relationships between university &
industry are few and far between all
around the world
 What should the basic tenets of this
interaction be?
R&D Key Statistics in Turkey
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Goal to increase share of R&D
investments to 3% of GDP by
2023
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Korea’s 2014 Target: 15%
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China’s 2020 Target: 2.5%
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Finland’s 2020 Target: 4 %
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EU’s 2020 Target: 3%
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GERD per capita in USD
(2013) is 175,9 USD
R&D expenditures and human resources data for 2014 were announced on 17.11.2015 by TurkStat.
Source: TUIK, OECD MSTI 2011/1, UNESCO
R&D Key Statistics in Turkey
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R&D expenditures and human resources data for 2014 were announced on 17.11.2015 by TurkStat.
R&D Key Statistics in Turkey
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Share of business
enterprises sector
in total R&D
expenditure
increased by
47.5%
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Business
enterprises sector
was in the first
rank among R&D
financiers by
48.9%
R&D expenditures and human resources data for 2014 were announced on 17.11.2015 by TurkStat.
R&D Key Statistics in Turkey
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Full Time Equivalent
(FTE) R&D personnel
increased by 7.5%
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The ratio of female R&D
personnel was 30.3%
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300,000 full-time
equivalent (FTE)
researchers of which
180,000 are private
sector-employed.
R&D expenditures and human resources data for 2014 were announced on 17.11.2015 by TurkStat.
Turkish Universities Budget
Funds
€M
Share % amongst
universities
Share % in
Turkey
16,7
19%
8%
10,1
12%
5%
Bilkent University
8,8
10%
4%
Boğaziçi University
8,6
10%
4%
Sabancı University
8,5
10%
4%
ITU
7,1
8%
4%
Dokuz Eylül University
3,4
4%
2%
Hacettepe University
3,3
4%
2%
Özyeğin University
2,3
3%
1%
Ege University
1,7
2%
1%
Top 10 Universities
70,9
81%
35%
Other Universities
16,1
19%
8%
Universities Total
87,0
100%
44%
University
ODTU-METU
Koç University
Turkish National
Science and Innovation System
National Science, Technology and
Innovation Strategy of Turkey (Vision 2023)
Turkey’s National Science, Technology and Innovation Strategy 2011-2016. (Source: TÜBİTAK,
2013a).
University – Industry Collaboration
Approaches
Where are most Turkish universities in this spectrum?
Teaching University
 Curricula development for undergraduate and
graduate students
 Student internships
Research University
 Research consortia and lon term research
partnerships to conduct frontier research
 Publication
Entrepreneurial
University
 Entrepreneurship education
 Business incubation services
 Spin-off companies, patent licensing
University – Industry Relations Spectrum
Research Partnerships
Collaborative R&D, research consortia and joint
projects, grant programs
Research Services
Contract research, consulting, quality control,
testing, certification and prototype
development
Shared Infrastructure
Use of university labs and equipment by firms
and technology parks located within universities
Academic entrepreneurship
Development and commercial exploitation of
technologies pursued by academic inventors
Human resource training and transfer
Training of industry employees, intership
programs, postgraduate training in industry,
adjunct faculty, chairs etc.
IP Commmercialization
IP transfer to industry (patents, licencing etc.)
Scentific publications
Use of codified scientific konwledge within
industry
Informal interaction
Social relationships (conferences, meetings etc.)
High
Low
Milhões
KU R&D projects: Granted TL/yr
(January 2004–August 2016)
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50
TUBITAK
1003:
6M
ISTKA
Fund:
2.5 M
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Other
European Union
40
Private Sector
Government
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ISTKA
Fund:
2.1 M
ERC
Fund:
12 M
30
25
KUYTAM's
DPT Fund:
15 M
20
ERC
Fund:
9M
ERC
Fund:
5M
15
Arçelik
Center for
Creative
Industries
8.5 M
KÜTEM's
TÜPRAŞ
Fund:
8M
10
5
0
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
SNFC for Late Antique and
Byzantine Studies
7M
2014
2015
2016
(Jan-Aug)
TUBITAK
1003:
4.5 M
ERC
Fund:
8M
University: Education, Scientific
Research & Knowledge
 Shape & educate young individuals that
bring added value for society
 Produce & originate scientific knowledge;
disseminate results & applications
 Broad-based fundamental education
 Instill ability to learn-to-learn rather than
teaching vocational skills
 Ensure that students are individuals who
can question and research
 Prepare students for life after university
University-industry Relations:
Human Resources & Education
 Human Resources are the most important
resource for industry & society
 Keeping universities aloft & excellent
should be the selfish objective of industry
 Scholarships & ‘Affiliate’ programs
 Universities need to help industry stay
current & alive for their selfish reasons
 Correctly-formulated educational
programs (BS, MS, PhD) could be win-win
 On-line, real-time distance education, etc.,
University-industry Relations:
‘D’, ‘R+D’ and ‘R’
 Faculty as Consultants; short-term projects
 Industry employees as graduate students;
collaboratively selected thesis topics
 Information exchange; seminars,
publications, internships
 Supportive partnerships that keep and eye
on each others mission (R&D)
 Real ‘R&D’ should not be ‘D’
 ‘R+D’ leads to publications + results
 Only ‘R’ leads to new ideas & innovation
R&D Problem Types and
University-industry Relations
• Known-unknowns
 Industry; short/mid/long-term R&D problems
 Partnerships may involve matching/pairing
with the list of expertise at university
• Unknown-unknowns
 New developments & opportunities that we do
not know that we do not know about
 Could make industry sink or jump in mid-term
 Cannot be seen by R&D unit inside the ‘box’
 The only way to capture is long-term vision
Taking Advantage versus Real
Partnership; Main Points
 Really good faculty are not desperately
seeking for things to do & projects
 Such faculty are already engaged in many
interesting/well-funded projects
 Industry needs to be creative & supportive
in order to attract their attention
 The time of every faculty & student at a
university has a measurable value
 R&D projects should also cover costs of
infrastructure & operational they use
Partnership types:
Known-unknowns (R+D)
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Project is supported by industry
Results are published & reported
Intellectual property owned by university
Industry can secure exclusive commercial
rights by paying for patent; conditions are
specified at the time of project signing
 Licensing fee negotiated on the basis of
the project, and likely markets
 University decides the distribution of
licensing income (inventor, school, OTL)
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Partnership type:
Unknown-unknowns (‘R’)
Industry establishes a ‘seed-research’ fund
RFP announced under a broad topic (nano,
energy, environment, surface science, etc.)
Industry & university experts form a panel to
select projects from those proposed
Most projects lead to publications & theses
One out of many projects may lead to totally
new innovation that may change industry
Intellectual property & patents handled in
the same way as that for known-unknowns
Istanbul Rotary Club Seed Research
Program (4 out of 11 funded)
Name of Faculty
Gülayşe I. Dunn
A. Levent Demirel
Project Title
Determination of Gene Expression Programs Essential for Neuronal Development
HANDEDNESS IN SELF-ASSEMBLED MACROMOLECULAR SYSTEMS
Alper Kiraz
Monitoring Phase Transformations in Fluids with High Sensitivity Using
Micromechanical Resonators
Özgür Birer
Drop-supplied atmospheric pressure plasma system & spectroscopic
characterization of silica films
Corry Dunn
Understanding the Function of Mgr2p, a Protein Required for the Survival of Cells
with Damaged Mitochondrial DNA
Erdem Alaca
Size‐Dependence of Mechanical Behavior in Brittle Solids: Micro to Atomic Scale
Seda Kızılel
FUNCTIONALIZED PEG HYDROGELS INCORPORATING STEM CELLS AS
IMMUNOACTIVE BARRIERS FOR PANCREATIC ISLET CELL COATING
Burak Erman
Design of new drugs for metabolic illnesses
Alper Demir
Color vision of the fruit fly (Drosophila)
Nathan Lack
Development of a novel functional genomic screen to identify therapeutic
targets against prostate cancer
R. Gülhan Aktaş
Can cancerous liver cells revert back to normal cells?
KU Research Labs – Some Examples
Research Center for Multi-Core Software Engineering (MSRC)
Prof. Serdar Taşıran
Cloud computing:
A desktop simulator for the runtime verification and
systematic exploration of cloud programs
Dynamic verification: Race detection
Race detection on highly-parallel GPUs
Race detection for transactional memory program
Transactional memory for race detection and
avoidance
Static verification tools
A proof system for relaxed memory models
Static verification of transactional memory
implementations
Multicore performance and power: Managing power on
multicores for multimedia streaming applications
Prof. Dr. Hakan Ürey
Research Focus:
MEMS, Micro-optics; 2D/3D Display and Imaging Thermal
cameras; Biosensors; Spectrometers; Nanotags and
sensors;
• 25 researchers
MEMS Spectrometers, • >25 patents (17 student patents) licensed to industry
(Microvision Inc, Fraunhofer IPMS, OPET, Inventram,
Fraunhofer IPMS
Aselsan)
• 2 recent spin-off companies
MEMS Thermal
Imaging, Aselsan
Biosensors for POC Diagnostics, Inventram
mems.ku.edu.tr
KU Research Labs – Some Examples
Design Lab
Developing
novel concepts
in interaction
design
Human to Human Interaction in Double Sided Screens
Deformation in Human Computer Interaction
Hotspotizer
Interactions on Non-flat Surfaces
Koç University TÜPRAŞ Energy Center
(KÜTEM)
Established in 2012 with funds from TÜPRAŞ
Addresses challenges that Turkey faces in energy field
Incubation Center - KWORKS
• 50 startup companies supported in 1 year
• Raised over $2.6 million dollars in funding
rounds since 2015
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University-industry Relations:
Summary
 University-industry relations should be
formulated in a constructive manner that
support both sides for the long-term
 Short-term ‘D’ projects & mid-term ‘R+D’
projects need to be developed together
 Unknown-unknowns need to be captured
with ‘R’ projects & seed research
 The quality of faculty & students at the
university is the most important resource
for the industry that partners with
R&D Funding for Turkish Universities
under EU-FP7 Programmes
16
14
Million Euros
12
10
8
6
4
FP7 Funding Amounts
14.8
12.5
10
7.9
5.9
5.9
5.6
4.9
4
2
0
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Faculty
International Awards and Recognition
ERC: Pioneering
ground-breaking,
excellent science
KU: 2012, 1 project
2 mil EUR
KU: 2016, 9 projects
13.5 mil EUR
TR: 2016, 15 projects
25 mil EUR
Kerem Pekkan, 2012
Hakan Ürey, 2013
Kids Surgical Plan: An
Wearable Augmented
internet enterprise for sketch- Reality 3D Displays
based cardiovascular presurgical planning
Cory Dunn, 2014
Deciphering and
reversing the
consequences of
mitochondrial DNA
damage
Elif Nur Fırat Karalar, 2015
Dissecting the function and
regulation of centriolar
satellites: key regulators of
the centrosome/
cilium complex
Özgür Barış Akan, 2013
Communication Theoretical
Foundations of Nervous
System Towards BIOinspired Nanonetworks and
ICT-inspired Neuro
Treatment
Sedat Nizamoğlu, 2015
Novel Nanoengineered
Optoelectronic Biointerfaces
TR: 2012, 2 projects
3.5 mil EUR
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Between 2012-2016 Koç University
shouldered Turkey’s ERC performance
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Half of awarded budget to Turkey (8 out of
15 projects) is allocated to KU researchers
Alp Atakan, 2016
Market Selection,
Frictions, and the
Information Content of
Prices
Erdem Kabadayı, 2016
Industrialization and Urban Growth from the midnineteenth century Ottoman Empire to Contemporary
Turkey in a Comparative Perspective, 1850-2000
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R&D Grants/Contracts
Performance (EU Horizon 2020)
# of Horizon 2020 projects hosted by Turkish universities
15
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6
6
6
EU initiated Horizon 2020 in 2014
KU has received 8.9 M€ in Jan 2014–Jun 2016
KU is #1 among 30 Turkish universities that
are active in Horizon 2020
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Research Excellence at Koç University
Infrastructure
• 112 laboratories
• 16 research
centers
• 4 research forums
Support
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Research Support Services
Technology Transfer Office
KU Works Incubation Center
Among the first 10 universities
to be supported as “Innovative
and Entrepreneur
Universities” by BSTB
Research cluster strenghts
• Molecular Medicine / Molecular Biology and
Genetics / Nanomedicine
• Computational biology / Bioinformatics
• Biomedical visualization / Photonics / Optics /
Optical microsystems
• ICT / Broadband and wireless networking
• Energy / clean energy
• Archaeology / art-history
• Social policy research / Psychology of children
and family
• Migration research
• Cognitive psychology / neuroscience
• Creative design / human-machine interaction /
creative industries
Industry collaboration at Koç University
Training
for
researchers
Training
for industry
Project
Grant
Management
Management
financial and National and
administrative Interenational
Projects
Consulting
Contract
research
Matchmaking
ResearcherIndustry
Fellowship
and
Scholarship
Programs
(UG, PhD)
Joint
Research
projects
Consortia
building
Project
Development
Mentoring
(for SMEs)
IPR
negotiation
Joint
Research
Centers
Research
Consortia
PhD Student Recruitment:
Challenge for Young Universities
 Recruitment at UG level not a problem
 All students from top ~2% in country
 High caliber faculty; lots of R&D projects; require
expansion of graduate programs
 Recruitment of PhD students in the global
marketplace is a major challenge
 Competition from name ‘brands’
 Free environment, minimized boundaries &
norms, interdisciplinary excellence may be an
edge for Young Universities
 Culture change needed within Turkey for PhDs
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PhD Students at Koç University
 Most important driver of knowledge creation at
«research university» is PhD students
 KU PhD programs started relatively late and
initially developed slowly
 Two doublings occurred in 2010 and 2013 driven
by emphasis on R&D
 Returns on these investments will be 2018-20
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Looking for PhD talent worldwide
• Large numbers of outstanding international students:
– Current admission rate of 8-10%
– Admissions: ~110 MSc/MA and ~150 PhD per year
• Support:
– 73% of Master students supported by full or partial
scholarships
– 100% of PhD students supported by full scholarships
• Goal:
– Diverse student body incl. students from Brazil
– Joint or double PhD and Master programs with partners
GSSSH PhD Alumni where are they now?
Academia
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MIT
Duke University
UPenn
Columbia University
University of Massachusetts
University of California
New York University
Penn State University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Cornell University
University of Minnesota
Yale University
University of Florida
Rutgers University
Arizona State University
University of Pittsburgh
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University of North Carolina
Temple University
Tufts University
University of South Florida
University of Texas at Austin
University of Virginia
University of Michigan
Washington University in St. Louis
University of Iowa
University of Arizona
Texas A&M University
OTHER
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Queen's University
University of Alberta
University of Melbourne
Waseda University
York University, Canada
University of Western Ontario
Simon Fraser University
Carleton University
EUROPE
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University of Cambridge
University of Oxford
University of Birmingham
London School of Economics
Tilburg University
University of Strathclyde
Central European University
University of Essex
University of Bielefeld
Middlesex University
University of Amsterdam
University of Bonn
University of Zurich
INDUSTRY
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PWC / DHL / Philip Morris / Bosch
Ericsson / Indesit / Fritolay / Citibank
UNHCR
Max-Planck Institute
Boston Art Commission
Key contacts
Koç University
https://ku.edu.tr
Office of Vice-President for Research and Development (VPRD)
https://research.ku.edu.tr
Prof. Irşadı Aksun, Vice-President for Research and Development
[email protected]
Melissa Abache
Global Engagement Coordinator
[email protected]
Twitter: @AbacheMelissa