Local start-up financial assistance

KTU TTO – Achievements in the TÜBİTAK BiGG Investment Program

As an authorized implementing organization under the TÜBİTAK BiGG Investment Program, KTU TTO provides training, technical support, mentoring, and investment consultancy to technology- and innovation-oriented ventures.

Since 2019, KTU has been an Implementing Organization of the TÜBİTAK 1812 – Investment-Based Entrepreneurship Support Program, enabling young entrepreneur candidates to realize creative and world-changing business ideas each year in line with program priorities.

KTU ranks 18th among universities with entrepreneurs who have established technology-based companies through the BiGG Program.

KTU TTO BiGG Program
KTU BiGG Program Achievements

In 2024, KTU continued this success and achieved remarkable outcomes with its contributions to the entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem.

Young entrepreneurs from the university were awarded support under the TÜBİTAK Individual Young Entrepreneur (BiGG) Program.

The BiGG Program is one of the most important support mechanisms for the commercialization of innovative business ideas, providing entrepreneurs with company establishment support and enhancing Türkiye’s technology-based entrepreneurship capacity.

KTU students and graduates, through the projects they have developed within this scope, have produced innovative solutions and presented entrepreneurial ideas with high competitiveness on a national scale.

KTU TTO Entrepreneurship Ecosystem