21.10.2019 Düzce
The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) President M. Rifat Hisarcıklıoğlu gave a lecture on leadership and entrepreneurship at Düzce University. Hisarcıklıoğlu also visited Prof. Dr. Nigar Demircan Çakar, Rector of Düzce University, at his office.
Addressing
the students, Hisarcıklıoğlu said, “I am very happy to be at Düzce University. The
university is developing rapidly. I’m following it as it rises in the rankings
every year. It plays an important role in the development of both our youth and
the region. The university is building close ties to business and industry
representatives. You also work closely with Düzce CCI. We are cooperating on
many fields such as education infrastructure and project development.”
Hisarcıklıoğlu
stated that Düzce University is among the top 50 of the most entrepreneurial
universities and a+ university in student satisfaction and in the top 20 in
academic incentives.
The
TOBB President, expressing how glad he is to be with young people, said, “Youth
means energy, future and prosperity. The more educated young people there are
in one place, the more new ideas and wealth there is. Artificial Intelligence is
a very important issue. A technology that will change the future of the world
and the way we do business. We are talking about an industry with 10bn USD invested
so far. This amount is expected to increase to 57bn USD in 2021. So the whole
world is focused on artificial intelligence technology. Especially in the
defense industry; technologies, not cannons and rifles are competing. Very
soon, maybe robots will fight for humans. In this sense, we should create our
national artificial intelligence strategy with all haste.”
Hisarcıklıoğlu
explained that they established artificial intelligence engineering at TOBB ETU
and said that Turkey's first artificial intelligence engineers will graduate
from TOBB ETU.
Referring
to the importance of leadership and being an entrepreneur, Hisarciklıoğlu said
that if we can raise leading and entrepreneurial young people, we can quickly
adapt to and lead changes.
Hisarcıklıoğlu
stressed that the power of nations in the world today is measured not by their
rifles, but by entrepreneurial power; the 20 richest countries are the 20 most
entrepreneurial countries.
Noting
that countries are now importing entrepreneurs, Hisarciklioglu said, “51% of
entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley were born outside the United States. The
solution to unemployment is entrepreneurship.
An
entrepreneur in Turkey employs 10 people. So we need to increase our entrepreneurs.
With this vision, I have traveled every inch of our country. I spoke about
entrepreneurship. We have established the biggest women's and young entrepreneurs'
boards in Turkey. We founded TOBB University of Economics and Technology. Praise
Allah, entrepreneurship is in fashion now. If you told me to describe
entrepreneurs in one sentence: The entrepreneur is the person who crosses
borders.”
Hisarcıklıoğlu
stated that it is necessary to dream to become an entrepreneur, to turn the
dream into a goal, work hard, to be innovative, to create a brand and take
risks.