
Dr Irma Borst
SMARTconsulting.nu is a research- and consulting firm focused on effective and efficient innovation by networkorganizations.
SMARTconsulting.nu contributes to successful innovation projects through a variety of consultancy services. For an innovative product or service, multiple business model options will be developed and next translated in financial terms. During the implementation of an innovation project, benefits – as foreseen in the business case – will be monitored and if necessary recommendation for optimizing benefits will be formulated. The scientific research of SMARTconsulting.nu is dedicated to the improvement of performance of networkorganizations, efficient use of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding and effective communication in innovation ecosystems.

Mrs Neviana Boumbarova
SECTOR: ICT
TEAM INTELLECT – Neviana Boumbarova (lone entrepreneur) was established in 1992 at Sofia, Bulgaria, to develop electronic products that require innovative approach. The Information & Communication Technology was discovered as a perspective field to put efforts in it. The company is wholly Bulgarian and independent. Mrs. Neviana Boumbarova is the Manager / Owner of the company.
Services:
R&D of electronic products under custom’s requirements
- Hardware, Firmware, PC Software
- Prototypes manufacturing
- Preparing for mass production, Costs Optimization
- Systems Integration
Industrial design:
- Product’s Design – Shape & Color Design, Packaging Design
- Environment design – working environment, places for elder people or for people with special needs, children with disabilities
Consultancy
Product management / Project Management
Technical Documentation Writing
Workshops Organization
Staff Training
Goods:
Electronic Modules for RFID Identification and Door Control
Electronic Modules for GSM Communication in Lifts
Systems for Process Automation (water, energy, construction, oil&gas platforms, hydraulic products, plants for different kind of products)
Software -Custumized Data Base Management
Algorithms - Image Processing, Face Recognition, Eyes Control

Professor Halil Ibrahim BULBUL
Gazi University one of the big universities in Turkey. It has more than 70 thousand students and 5 thousand including academic personnel and staff.
In Gazi University some national projects are implemented individually in preferential areas and there are research laboratories depending on the size and area of the projects. Moreover, research centres carry out studies related to their fields. Gazi University opened Semiconductor Technologies Advanced Research Laboratory (STARLAB) with the support of State Planning Organisation (DPT) in 2005.
Individual and team projects are implemented completely by the project coordinators with support of The scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK). Within the university national and FP6 and FP7 projects carried out on behalf of the university.

Gazi University
Associate Professor
Miss Azer Cakiroglu
METU Technopolis (METUTECH) is the first, most innovative, and the largest science park in Turkey. It supports the creation of synergy between industry, university and public institutions through infrastructural/structural opportunities developed for academicians, researchers and companies using/producing technology. Combining METU’s (Middle East Technical University) research capacity and information pool with the innovative capacity of entrepreneurs, METUTECH has created a momentum in Turkey’s technology accumulation; it has become a successful model with its management experiences and projects for the formation of both the legal frame and the development of other science parks in Turkey.
METUTECH has reached to a scale of 282 firms, %89 of which are SME’s, employing more than 3750 personnel and carrying out R&D activities in a 87.000 m2 enclosed area, in a 10 years period with only using its own resources. METUTECH aims to become one of the world’s leading technology development regions in 10 years time.

Mr Mariano Cecowski
XLAB Research is recognized as one of the strongest computer science research teams outside the academic world in Slovenia. XLAB Research employs 36 people, where 4 have a PhD in Computer Science, 7 have Master's degrees and 9 are post-graduate students. Altogether the whole company’s team consists of 61 experts in the field of computer science, electronics and mathematics, with an access to additional expert resources (around 10 to 20 experts).
Expertise: we have experience in GIS data analysis, visualization and integration; natural disaster simulations, especially hydrographical; emergency response support and training; high-volume information processing, integration and analysis. The company also has experts in the fields of distributed systems, where we focus on Cloud computing (connectors to Cloud platforms, SLA, PaaS implementations) and their security, reliability and dependability.