Within the scope of the GAP Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Project, as a result of the workshops and field studies carried out for ecosystem stakeholders, especially universities, technoparks, technology transfer offices and organized industrial zones in the region, analyses revealing the current situation and needs of the region and its stakeholders have started to be made.

"Evaluation of Organized Industrial Zones (OIZ) and Small Industrial Sites (KSS) Settlements and Determination of Development Strategies", "Evaluation of Business Development Centers (İŞGEM) Structures and Determination of Development Strategies", "Evaluation of Industrial Efficiency of Regional Universities, In the project, which consists of a total of 4 work packages, namely "Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Technology Development Zone (TDZ) and TTO (Technology Transfer Offices)" and "Strategy Document for the Development of SMEs in the Region", current situation analysis workshops were held for all work packages. Interviews with ecosystem stakeholders at regional and national level have been completed to a great extent.

Together with the workshop reports prepared so far within the scope of the project, the current situation and needs analysis report completed within the scope of the İŞGEM work package and the İŞGEM comparative analysis report with best practices have been shared with the GAP Regional Development Administration. In this process, field studies have also been completed for OIZs and CSOs in the region, as well as for TDZs and TTOs, and quantitative and qualitative analyses of the data obtained from the fields have begun. The questionnaires prepared for SMEs in the region and the comparison provinces of Denizli, Kayseri, Konya and Çorum are currently being returned and the face-to-face semi-structured interviews with SMEs in the region within the scope of the relevant work package are expected to be completed this month.