ABOUT US

The İzQ Entrepreneurship Center will be a center which will undertake a mission to contribute to the ecosystem in İzmir hinterland, to provide opportunities such as fund sources, mentorship, training, activities and networking for the commercialization, growth and internationalization of the enterprises and to allocate physical environment for the entrepreneurs. Our İzQ Entrepreneurship Center will be a place where the ideas are flourished for the Innovation Center.

İzQ Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center is based upon the vision of transforming İzmir into a city of innovation and entrepreneurship, aims to raising awareness on entrepreneurship and innovation and develop the ecosystem, and is located in two building as “İzQ Entrepreneurship Center” and “İzQ Innovation Center”.

The brand of “İzQ”, bringing the both centers under the same roof, has been derived from the blending of the words of “İzmir” and “IQ”, through the understanding of connecting the intelligence of İzmir’s qualified human resources with İzmir’s power.

The primary target of the center is to improve entrepreneurship, R&D and innovation awareness in İzmir and allow for an increasing welfare environment via capacity development.

İzmir is the most suitable city for the innovation and entrepreneurship through the following characteristics.

• A center of the different civilizations and multiculturalism with its 8.500 years history,
• A sunny weather for 300 days in a year,
• Reasonable cost of living,
• Warm-hearted, happy and cheerful people,
• A holiday paradise for its towns being 45 minutes away from the city center,
• A center of entertainment with its geography blended with blue and green,
• One of the most significant port cities of the Europe,
• High education level and qualified human resource,
• Sectoral diversity and a trade network extending to almost 200 countries and five continents and
• Powerful infrastructure of science and research through 10 Universities, 155 Research and Application Centers, 90 R&D Centers, 30 Design Centers and 4 Technoparks.

As a result, the fact that İzmir will take place in the international entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem is possible when its openness to the entrepreneurship spirit and innovation is revealed through “İzQ Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center.”