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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U.S. entity list reaches deep into China’s battery supply chain
Trade officials from the two largest economies held a video call on Thursday that both sides described in cordial terms. On Friday the Department of Homeland Security added 43 Chinese companies to the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act Entity List, a 30 percent expansion and the largest in the statute’s five-year history, reaching into aluminium, lithium, gold, capacitors, textiles, pharmaceuticals and snack food.
Beijing’s Commerce Ministry noted the sequence explicitly on Saturday, condemning the action as an unfounded unilateral sanction arriving one day after what it called a constructive exchange, and promising necessary measures to protect Chinese firms without specifying them. Whether the timing was deliberate or merely bureaucratic, the message received in Beijing was the same.
August 3, 2026 -
China’s front-loaded export boom reverses in July
Chinese shipments bound for the United States fell outright for the first time in several months. Official trade figures do not appear until August 7 but the businesses filling in independent surveys already know. The reversal is abrupt because the preceding surge was artificial.
Chinese exports to the United States rose 14 percent in June, helping overall exports jump 27 percent, the fastest pace in nearly five years, as manufacturers rushed orders through ahead of anticipated tariff increases. Manufacturing showed the clearest improvement, retail sales recovering nicely, and American-bound orders posting sharp year-on-year gains.
July 31, 2026 -
Robots and inverters become Washington’s latest strategic technologies
On Tuesday the FCC added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices and connected power inverters to its Covered List, which in practical terms means new models of either category cannot obtain the equipment authorisation required before an electronic device may be imported, marketed or sold in the United States.
Neither category was mentioned in the Communications Act of 1934. Both are now regulated under it, because both connect to networks, and connectivity has become the legal hook on which American industrial policy hangs. The mechanics deserve precision, because the scope is narrower than headlines suggested and the design is more consequential.
July 30, 2026