Overview
Vision and Mission:
Nowadays, traditional teaching and research universities (2nd generation university-2GU) are transforming into a new concept of universities (3rd generation university-3GU), integrating missions for social and economic development. This transformation is a fundamental change in universities to increase the competition for students and academics, government demands, and funding for technology-based economic growth. In this regard, entrepreneurship plays an integral role in connecting social and economic development to the university’s mission. For example, a need for new entrepreneurial opportunities to employ a large number of researchers or fellows trained every year and continuously searching for academic or industrial jobs is felt. The role of entrepreneurship that can appear in the missions of the university, research institutes, innovation centers, and solution provider companies (consultants, and business development, marketing, and product management delegates) to solve such kind of social-economic problems has essential importance.
In this regard, CIGHTechLtd is an attempt to tie science and business through innovativeness achieved through generating novel high-tech ideas and multidisciplinary topics, using multinational partners and organizations in strategic planning, and RTD&C project management in association with other partners to achieve new technologies.
Hybrid Concept:
CIGHTechLtd is a combination of different concepts that have a role in an innovation ecosystem. CIGHTechLtd is a private and online innovation center that is designed to open up new opportunities by generating novel ideas, to be a hub for associate partners who are professional in multidisciplinary fields or young talents, contribute to high-tech RTD&C (Research, Technology Development & Commercialization) project management and to create new startups. So we actually combine different concepts “innovation center/technology hub”, “Startup studio”, and “RTD&C unit” in a hybrid concept. 
Scope:
The main scope of CIGHTechLtd is on:
- Green Tech and destructive problem-based domains: The strategy of CIGHTechLtd about market needs is mostly general with a focus on maintaining integrity with maximum social and natural benefits, and especially on green technologies to guarantee the sustainability of the technology we are going to develop. Our focus, but not strictly restricted, is on health and nutrition, green and environmental, agriculture, animal husbandry and fisheries, sports and recreation, lifestyle, children, women and family, education, and…
- Hard-tech: We are also interested in deep tech and hard-tech (Laser & Photonics, Advanced Materials, Plasma Technology, Thin film Technology, Biotech, IoT, Robotics,… and ideas with technological convergence (NBIC: convergence of two or more of these technologies: Nanotech, Biotech, IT, Cognitive science). These kinds of technologies, with a huge capacity for competitive advantage, can help us to build the future of Cightech more sustainably.
- Complementary hard-tech: CIGHTechLtd is also interested in ideas that have complementary and supporting roles to our tech-based ideas. We believe that it is critical to pay attention to the strategic needs of our system (internal value creation or spin-off startups based on open innovation concept) such as industrial design, manufacturing tech, marketing & value chain, regulatory, technology public education, … For example, our industrial/product design and manufacturing are very well developed to support our projects and associate members. CIGHTechLtd is also supporting high-tech professionals by helping them to promote their high-quality products globally in “The Innovation HIVE” and by supplying their research with several research facilities, services, materials, and devices as well as information about global events such as conferences and exhibitions, science/tech news, entrepreneurship notes and so on. The C-Hive is actually a platform to bridge between researchers and research tool providers worldwide. You can reach The HIVE here.
Why do you need Cightech?
Cightech will construct teams including associate members to work cohesively in a friendly environment, with a feeling of unity and without any conflict. In our view, academic and industrial partners are not our customers rather they are associate members of the Cightech family. Our ultimate goal is to work continuously and permanently like a family and gain common benefits.
Academic associate members of Cightech may be interested in research ideas that bring them a new source of funding that is also free of charge for them. It is our honor to work alongside to our associate members as a team. Our industrial members also, may pay for novel ideas and contribute to developing new technologies for their financial benefits. In addition, some more ideas, as well as human resources, may be supplied by inviting and supporting young researchers. Moreover, governments also may be interested in supporting our entrepreneurship-integrated proposals due to their impact on the economy and society.