Sevde Nur Bayraktar

GamesUp is a hub for game developers at Yildiz Technical University Technopark in İstanbul. In the direction of 21st centuries’ entrepreneurial university model which contribute to the Turkey’s R&D activities, Yildiz Technical University, started activities of opening technology development area and established the Yildiz Technopark in 2003. Yildiz Technopark, continue to work with the vision of becoming an international collaboration center where new ideas converts to innovative outputs. Yildiz Technopark continued to grow in line with the principle of sustainable development since 2009, With 23.500 m2 Ikitelli Campus started its operations at the end of 2014, Technopark’s total R&D office space has increased to 148.000 m2. Yildiz Technopark, hosts 425 R&D companies, 154 incubator companies and more than 7,500 qualified R&D and software employees in various sectors such as; software, information and communication technologies, telecommunication, electronics, pharmaceuticals, machinery and equipment, chemical, aerospace, energy, defense, construction, food.