As of 2009, the METU-Technopolis project employs about 3,300 personnel, approximately 2,700 of which are researchers (86% of the total staff are university graduates, and 23% have MS, MA, or PhD degrees), working within 240 firms [REF].
METU-Technopolis hosts partners to several European Union Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) projects,[REF] such as NICE, SINCERE,[REF] ReSIST,[REF] SmeInnov8gate[REF] and IP4INNO [REF].