Gokce (Dervisoglu) OkandanCreative Entrepreneurship
Areas of expertise
- Knowledge management
- Tacit knowledge
- Corporate culture conflicts
- Culture policy
- Strategic management support
- Social-cultural-creative entrepreneurship
Education
- Post Doc, Cultural Policy, Princeton University
- Ph.D., Management Organization, Istanbul University
- Design Management, Istanbul Bilgi University
- MA-Mag, Strategic Management, Istanbul/Inssbruck University
- B.A., Business Administration, Istanbul University
Gokce (Dervisoglu) Okandan started her academic career at Istanbul University, where she mostly concentrated on strategic management issues related to knowledge management. She continued her studies at Innsbruck University with Prof. Hans Hinterhuber with the support of an Austrian research scholarship and published the result as a on Strategic Knowledge Management in Turkish. During her Ph.D., she worked on the role of Corporate Support on Culture and the Arts and developed a scorecard for these activities, with the support of Copenhagen Business School Art and Leadership Center.
Gokce (Dervisoglu) Okandan has completed her post doctoral research at Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School Center for Arts Policy and Research as a Tübitak fellow and appointed as the Director of Cultural Management Graduate Program as well as Vice Director of Work Ethics Research Center and board member of Cultural Policy and Management Research Center.
Her research interest continues in creativity related issues such as art, design, especially in terms of innovation and sustainability as well as strategic thinking. She also acted as the pioneer academic actor in the foundation of YEKON- Turkey’s Creative Industries Association and has been working especially on creative entrepreneurship within the GEW Executive Committee and Istanbul Chamber of Industry Quality Board.
Latest Analyses & Insights on Gokce's expertise
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Germany’s Merz floats U.S.-EU car tariff swap after talks with Trump
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday he would pursue a new bilateral arrangement that could see U.S. cars imported into Europe duty-free in exchange for equivalent tariff waivers on German vehicles shipped to the U.S. The proposal, discussed during Merz’s first official visit to Washington for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, aims to defuse one of the most contentious fronts in the transatlantic trade relationship.
“We have to see if we can come up with an offset rule or something along those lines,” Merz told an audience in Berlin, describing a concept that would match duty exemptions on a car-for-car basis.
June 6, 2025 -
Global supply chains on edge as U.S. tariffs and China export curbs collide
The Trump administration dramatically raised the stakes in its global trade confrontation on Wednesday, doubling tariffs on imported steel and aluminium to 50%, just as it pressed trading partners to submit their “best offers” to avoid a looming wave of even broader protectionist levies. The move marks a significant intensification of President Donald Trump’s “America First” agenda and signals a critical moment for global trade negotiations.
Under a late-night executive order signed Tuesday, Trump raised the existing 25% tariffs—originally imposed in March—to 50%, effective from Wednesday. White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said the new rates reflect the administration’s reassessment of domestic industry needs.
June 4, 2025 -
U.S. to turbocharge rare earth projects under defense emergency powers
President Donald Trump is preparing to invoke sweeping emergency powers to accelerate domestic production of critical minerals and weapons systems, bypassing key legal safeguards and congressional funding constraints.
The forthcoming executive action, expected to be published Wednesday in the Federal Register, will apply to the Defense Production Act (DPA)—a Cold War-era law that gives the U.S. president broad authority to marshal domestic industry in response to national security threats.
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