Mustafa Cakir

Mustafa Çakir is an industrial engineer with over 14 years of experience in patent portfolio management, patent data analytics, patent valuation and licensing strategies.

He is the Co-founder of Patent Effect, established in 2019, a company providing intellectual property, knowledge transfer and start-up support services. His work focuses on patent analytics, valuation, portfolio management, commercialisation and acceleration programmes for IP-based start-ups and spin-offs.

He is also the Co-founder of Patentiv, a digital patent valuation platform supported by the Berlin Senate in Germany, and the founder of Patent Raporu, Türkiye's largest patent-focused platform, with over 9,000 members, including patent professionals, R&D specialists and knowledge transfer experts.

Previously, Mustafa served as Patent Portfolio Manager at Sabanc? University TTO and IPR and Licensing Unit Manager at Ege University EBILTEM-TTO, supporting patent management, knowledge transfer and entrepreneurship activities.

He is currently President of LES Türkiye, the national chapter of the Licensing Executives Society International, and was recognised by IAM as one of the world's leading 300 IP strategists in both 2022 and 2023.

Mustafa has also gained practical knowledge transfer experience at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), UCL Business (UK) and Cambridge Enterprise (UK). He holds the Registered Technology Transfer Professional (RTTP) and Qualified Patent Information Professional (QPIP) credentials.