TÜBİTAK provides great support for entrepreneurs to bring their business ideas to life with BİGG Program. The 1512 Entrepreneurship Support Program aims to support the activities from the idea stage to the market so that entrepreneurs can transform their technology and innovation-oriented business ideas into enterprises with high added value and high potential to create qualified employment. This way, it is aimed to encourage qualified entrepreneurship and to create start-up companies that have international competitive power, can develop innovative, high-tech products and services. Within the scope of the program, entrepreneurship training is provided to entrepreneurs and technical, commercial and administrative support is provided to entrepreneurs with industry-experienced guides. As it is explained below, this program consists of three stages, for the transformation of innovative business ideas into commercial products/processes/services. The entrepreneur can complete each stage and continue to the next stage if receiving TUBİTAK’s approval.
a) Stage 1; It is the stage where the entrepreneurs present their business ideas to the implementing organizations, the implementing organizations evaluate these business ideas and provide the entrepreneurs with the accelerator service for the business ideas that would become a successful business plan. At this stage, Implementing Organizations providing entrepreneurs with mentorship, network, training, etc. Implementing Organizations providing support, carry out the technical and commercial verification of the idea in the process of turning the business idea into a business plan. Stage 1 is completed on the deadline of the business plan specified in the entrepreneurship project support call.
In the 1st Phase process to be carried out through 63 Implementing Organizations, applications for business ideas from all over Turkey and from every field of technology, regardless of technology field, will be collected and evaluated by Implementing Organizations, and entrepreneur candidates who will apply for Stage 2 will be determined. Entrepreneur candidates who have a technology-based, innovative, commercializable business idea and meet the criteria in the definition of “entrepreneur” in the Implementation Principles of the Program must apply to the Implementing Organizations like ERA.
