It was established in 1972 by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu, TÜBİTAK) in Gebze, Kocaeli Province bringing a number of research units of TÜBİTAK formed in the past under one umbrella.
[4] Two years after its establishment, TÜBİTAK formed in 1965 the Operational Research Unit at the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) in Ankara.
[1] In the years after 1976, research projects were conducted that were funded by UNIDO and NATO's Science for Stability Program.
And in 1991, TÜBİTAK MAM started a process of transformation adopting industrial research and development in principle as its main strategy and studies.
[1] In following years, the center underwent structural changes in the organization as a result of expansion of its subordinate research units.