Turkey-based phone operator Turkcell has signed a strategic partnership with Ozyegin University to launch Enterprise Factory, a business incubator programme.
The incubator will host eight to 16 entrepreneurs for a year and they will receive academic and business development consultancy as well as professional service support from Ozyegin University.
Successful entrepreneurs will have the chance to join Turkey’s largest joint venture ecosystem the ‘Turkcell Partner Programme.’
Berna Samiloglu, head of new businesses and entrepreneurship at Turkcell, said he was structuring the company’s corporate venturing unit and added: "It’s very important for us to get in touch with brillant entrepreneurs with high potential ideas at a very early stage, so that we can contribute to the development of their business and get the opportunity of having a partnership with them. Companies like Turkcell have a big responsibility and lots to do to develop entrepreneurship in Turkey."