17 December 2019 - Tuesday
AKGUN: The R&D Company of Trabzon Teknokent with the highest Export figures and employing the highest number of personnel.
In the “Bests of Trabzon TEKNOKENT” award ceremony, AKGUN, which employs 52 personnel in Trabzon Teknokent and 627 personnel in total, was awarded with “The R&D Company with the highest Export figures and employing the highest number of personnel” award. The Chairman of the Board of Directors Mr. Temel AKGÜN received the award on behalf of our company and he emphasized the importance of university-industry cooperation in his speech at the ceremony. Mr. AKGUN also said in his speech that “Congratulations to Teknokent Management. University industry cooperation is very important. If you invest in innovation, you can make a real difference. Now is the time for innovation. Industrialists can be successful by collaborating with scientific projects in universities. We achieve the success by doing this. We started to sell our artificial intelligence products to the world by doing many studies in cooperation with the universities.” Mr. AKGUN continued, “We want to invest more in our region and provide more employment” and he invited other industrialists to invest in this region.
Trabzon Teknokent Chairman of the Board Prof. Dr. İsmail Hakkı ALTAŞ said, “I am pleased to organize this event for the first time. Our companies in Trabzon Teknokent are carrying out their works with great devotion. Trabzon Teknokent showed a major breakthrough and moved from 28th to 13th place among the all Teknokents in Turkey in 2018. With this breakthrough, we received the first prize among the best developing Teknokents at the 7th Technology Development Zones and R&D Centers Award Ceremony. We would like to thank all of our companies in our region that made us live this joy and wish them continued success.” in his speech at the award ceremony.
