Advantages of Adana   • Adana, an important trade center of the Mediterranean region, is located along the routes that connect east to west for centuries. To be in a dynamic trade center is a great advantage for entrepreneur companies in terms of finance.   • Its location on the Cukurova land with high yield brings agricultural advantages   • Due to its geographical location and land with high yield, it has been settled by many civilizations and presently it is a large city with rapid urbanization and industrialization.   • 18 of the first 500 large industrial organizations in Turkey are located in Adana. Due to good road and air connections and its closeness to the sea, it is a dynamic center. Thus, this provides several advantages to companies in manufacturing sector in terms of transportation.

• There are 55 active foreign ventures in our region

• It has one of the prestige’s universities within the country and reputable among the universities of the world. And this contributes to the high quality manpower in the area.

• Adana has an advantageous position due to low living costs compared with other cities in Turkey

Advantages on Taxes;   According to the law of Technology Development Region numbered 4691, R&D companies in Cukurova Technopolis are exempted from income and corporations taxes until the end of year 2013

Synergism in the region   The opportunities for sharing information and cooperation between companies

Services provided for companies within Technopolis

Consultancy and Training services,   Communication services,   Conference, congress, exhibition opportunities,   Restaurant and shopping centers,   Post office,   First Aid,   Infrastructure services,   Security and fireman service,   Maintenance service and landscape   Cleaning service

Proper environment for development for newly established high technology companies   With the purpose to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation, Cukurova Technopolis together with Ç. University provide a support unit named “Nest center”, which provides office area, equipment and consultancy service for newly established companies.

The benefits from Cukurova University Human Resources   Çukurova University has 1909 academic staff members and 32700 students with BS, MS, and PhD who have high quality profile in national and international standards. Companies can benefit from students and/or expertise of academic staff human resources as Project partners

Scientific and Technologic Infrastructure   Students and academic staff members are able to search national and international publications on CD-Rom or via internet for which our library has online subscriptions. Cukurova University has large computer facilities, nearly every faculty and institution of higher education has a computer lab. And 197 research labs (SOMEL) with summary information are open to common use for researchers.

Institutional Experience   A number of projects at the research and application centers were finished to support R&D projects. A wide range of innovations were translated into applications and included in production.

ÜSAM is a center which were established to do basic and applied research, to ensure interaction between Cukurova University and the local industrial companies

These successes mark Cukurova University campus as the source of productivity for innovation and invention.