Gokce (Dervisoglu) OkandanCreative Entrepreneurship

Gokce (Dervisoglu) Okandan
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

  • India aligns power markets with global norms through virtual PPA legalization

    India’s electricity market is poised for a significant reform, with the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) proposing a framework to formally introduce Virtual Power Purchase Agreements (VPPAs)—a move that could reshape how large energy consumers fulfill their renewable obligations and participate in power trading.

    The draft Power Market Regulations, 2025, released this week, would officially recognize VPPAs as a new class of over-the-counter (OTC) financial contracts. Unlike traditional power purchase agreements where buyers take physical delivery of electricity, a VPPA enables a financial settlement between a buyer and a renewable power generator based on a pre-agreed price, while the actual electricity is sold into the open market.

    June 18, 2025
  • U.S. moves to tighten tariff net on Southeast Asia over China rerouting concerns

    The United States is increasingly leaning toward maintaining elevated tariffs on several Southeast Asian nations amid rising evidence that China is rerouting exports through the region to evade U.S. duties.

    Despite ongoing trade talks, analysts note that the U.S. could ultimately settle on an average tariff of 15.5% for Southeast Asian countries. This would reflect growing frustration in Washington over what it views as deliberate transshipment practices by Chinese firms—using third countries to repackage or lightly modify products and then exporting them to the U.S. under different origin labels.

    June 18, 2025
  • EU to enforce Russian gas ban by 2027

    The European Commission is preparing to formally unveil a legally binding plan to end all imports of Russian pipeline gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) by 2027, as part of its broader strategy to sever energy ties with Moscow following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

    The legislative proposal, scheduled for release on Tuesday, will lock into EU law what had so far been only a political commitment — and it will do so in a way that circumvents potential vetoes from Russia-friendly member states like Hungary and Slovakia. According to an internal Commission summary, the plan proposes a phased prohibition beginning January 1, 2026.

    June 17, 2025

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