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

• 2008-          Director, Competitiveness Forum, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey.
• 2007-8        Visiting scholar, Center for Technology Management, University of Cambridge, UK.
• 2003-          Academic director, Entrepreneurship Development Program, Sabancı University.
• 1999-          Associate Professor, Faculty of Management, Sabancı University.
• 1999-2001 (Summers) Visiting Scholar, Engineering and Technology Management, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA.
• 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, USA.
• 1990-5       Research Assistant, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Expertise

Development Economics, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship.

Awards

2007-8    Post-Graduate Scholarship Program/ R2219 Funding program. TÜBİTAK

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

2001 TÜGIAD (Turkish Young Industrialists Association), İstanbul, Turkey. TÜGIAD’s Economy 2001 award for the study of “Risk Sermayesi, Girişimcilik ve Türkiye’nin Geleceği (Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship and The Future of Turkey).”

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

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

Tel: 90-216 483 9661; Fax: 90- 216 483 9699; Email: dilek@sabanciuniv.edu
Last updated on May, 2009.