Hayri Ozturan has been appointed General Manager of ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO), which was established in January 2014 by Istanbul Technical University (ITU) as the interface for technology transfer. Ozturan graduated from ITU’s Department of Aeronautical Engineering in 1997. He worked for the Turkish Air Force, Bosch, Idelab, and Turkish Tecnic in quality, costumer, operation and program management. Reaching a total project volume of TRY 256m in 856 projects carried out with 680 academicians to date, ITUNOVA TTO secured a place at the center of R&D and innovation.