The Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ) will soon house Turkey’s debut marine techno-city to be established near the university’s faculty of maritime studies. Planned to be exclusively designed for marine technologies, the techno-city will be the university’s second techno-city after the İTÜ Arı Teknokent.
According to Daily Sabah, the new techno-city will be a platform of the R&D project exchange with private and state institutions. Professor Mehmet Karaca, the İTÜ Chancellor, said that Turkey’s maritime field is lacking ship design. At first stage, their aim is to build know-how and carry out R&D projects on yacht design as well as ship technologies, added.
The university’s Tuzla campus, located on the Marmara Coast near the city’s main shipyards, will be the techno-city’s main location. The R&D studies will be carried out at the techno-city to combine know-how with the production stage, Karaca noted.
Two years ago, another techno-city that focused on energy technologies was set up within the İTÜ Arı Teknokent. As the first thematic techno-city in Turkey, the techno-city’s energy platform houses more than twenty companies working on diverse projects like wind and solar power along with atomic, conventional and renewable energy. Aside from energy and IT firms, a separate company is also working on electric automobiles.
The new maritime techno-city is anticipated to serve as a place that transforms production into service.
