Erciyes Technopark's main service is to provide
appropriate office, industrial and storage areas for tenant companies. Along
with the main service, Erciyes Technopark also provides many qualified
technopark services while preparing the infrastructure for others. Some of these
services are as follows:
- Infrastructure supplies,
- Cleaning services,
- Security,
- Maintenance, Repair, and Landscaping services,
- Fire extinguishing,
- Medical care,
- Postal services,
- Insurance,
- Counseling & training,
- IT services,
- Financial services,
- ISP services,
- Conference, congress, and exhibition opportunities,
- Travel agencies,
- Restaurants
and shopping centers, etc.
Along with the services listed above, some support units providing important
services for tenant companies are developed in Erciyes Technopark:
Incubation Center: An incubation center is established through the
partnership of Erciyes Technopark with TTGV (Turkish Technology Development
Foundation), KOSGEB (Small and Medium Industry Development Organization), and
Erciyes University, where start-ups and entrepreneurs are supported through
office space and equipment allocation, consultancy and training services etc.
This center will be the first incubation center in Turkey that is established
via the partnership of an NGO, public sector and private sector.
Some of the services that will be provided by Erciyes Technopark Incubation
Center are; provision of office space with special conditions, technical
assistance, secreterial services, as well as administrative and financial
supports for individuals and companies that are capable of developing promising
products. In order to establish and run the incubation center, efforts for
obtaining donations from World Bank are being continued.
Incubation Center is established on over 2000 m2 office space, where
25 start-up companies will be supported per year. Along with the projects in IT
technology, projects in bio-technology and gene engineering, energy production
and energy transformation technologies, chemical and material technologies,
aerospace technologies will be supported, and the companies will be supported to
access the Erciyes University's facilities.
Consultancy for access to the financial resources and grants: Erciyes
Technopark is aware of the difficulties that young entrepreneurs with
insufficent starting capital face in obtaining external financial resources.
Accordingly, a consultancy unit is established in order to facilitate the access
to the national and international funds and donation sources (such as TTGV,
TIDEB, KOSGEB, World Bank, EU funds etc.) provided for projects on development
of advanced technologies.
EU Center: This center is established to provide counseling and training
services for individuals and SMEs that can develop projects capable of obtaining
support from the programs of EU including the 6th Framework Programme.
EU Center's objective is to provide support for information access on EU,
participation in EU programmes, finding business partners, project development,
preparing project proposals etc. via seminars, workgroups, and training
programs.
Consultancy for Access to Venture Capital: One of the objectives of
Erciyes Technopark is to provide opportunities for its tenants in obtaining and
using "Venture Capital", which is a widely used financing mechanism throughout
the World to support the establishment and operation of start-ups. With this
respect, necessary mechanisms are developed in order to provide consultancy for
accessing venture capital or to establish a strategic partnership with a venture
capital fund.