My Profile

Dilek Çetindamar, Professor

Qualifications

• 1985-89 Department of Industrial Engineering, B.A, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• 1989-92 Department of Economics, M.A, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.
  Thesis is on “The Economic History of Planning”.
• 1992-95 Department of Management, Ph. D. , Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey.
  Thesis is on “The Impact of New Technologies on Scale: a Case Study of the Turkish Chemical Industry”.
• 1994 Ph.D. Internship, Institute of New Technologies, United Nations University, Maastricht, Holland.

Academic Work Experience

• 2017           Board member, Inovent (Technology Commercialization Company), Istanbul.
• 2013-17      Founder and Academic Director, Sabanci University Entrepreneurship Committee.
• 2009-17      Full Professor, School of Management, Sabancı University.
• 2014-15      Visiting Professor, Sloan School of Management, MIT, US.
• 2008-10      Director, Competitiveness Forum, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• 2007-18      Visiting scholar, Center for Technology Management, University of Cambridge, UK.
• 2003-17      Founder and Academic Director, Entrepreneurship Development Program, Sabancı University.
• 1999-09      Associate Professor, Faculty of Management, Sabancı University.
• 1999-2001, 2011 (Summers) Visiting Scholar, Engineering and Technology Management, Portland State University, Portland, OR, US.
• 1998-9       Visiting Scholar, Industrial Dynamics Department, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.
• 1995-8       Visiting Scholar, Economics Department, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, US.
• 1990-5       Research Assistant, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Expertise

Technology Management and Entrepreneurship

Awards

2012 Best Book Award, IAMOT.

2007-8 Post-Graudate Scholarship Program /R2219 funding program, TÜBİTAK.

2003 TÜBA (Turkish Academy of Sciences) Encouragement Awards at Social Sciences.

2001 TÜGIAD (Turkish Young Industrialists Association)‘s Best Paper Award (then published as a book).

Memberships

A member of the Schumpeterian Society, IEEE, INFORMS, American Economic Association, and International Association for Management of Technology, EITIM

Languages

Turkish (Native); English (Advanced); German (Advanced)

Address

School of Management, Sabanci University, Tuzla, 34956, Istanbul, Turkey

Email: dilek@sabanciuniv.edu

Last updated on March, 2017.