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The earthquakes centered in Kahramanmaraş on February 6, 2023 negatively affected 11 provinces. More than 50 thousand people lost their lives after the disaster. Approximately 11 million people living in the region are trying to adapt to life after the earthquake. After the February 6 earthquakes, which were the most devastating earthquakes in the history of the Republic, there was a slowdown in economic activities in the region, and most businesses experienced problems such as working remotely, reducing production or service volume, having problems in their relations with suppliers or customers, qualified personnel leaving their jobs, and not being able to meet the need for qualified personnel, etc. In order to alleviate these problems, support packages were developed by the state and company officials who met the conditions benefited from these supports. Within the scope of this study, it is aimed to determine the situation of technopark companies that took innovative initiatives and had to survive by conducting R&D studies after the February 6 earthquakes. For this purpose, our study was conducted on companies operating within the Malatya Technopark. A 33-question survey was created to determine the changes that occurred in the companies after the earthquake. The online form of the developed survey was created, the contact information was shared with the company officials operating in Malatya Technopark and the data was collected. The collected data was analyzed with the help of SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) program. In addition, data on the number of personnel, number of projects, etc. were obtained from Malatya Technopark Management. The findings based on all available data were interpreted and presented.