Please check out our new brochure featuring some of the ways industry partners can engage with KAUST (download a PDF version here). To request a hard copy, please email your contact details to innovation@kaust.edu.sa. If you are interested in exploring a partnership with KAUST,...
read moreKAUST-based startup NOMADD (NO-water Mechanical Automated Dusting Device) recently closed a Series A funding round from the KAUST Innovation Fund totaling $1 million. NOMADD is a smart and ecological desert solar panel cleaning system developed at KAUST by Georg Eitelhuber, NOMADD’s founder and current chief...
read moreWhat an amazing week!!! The BIO International Convention (BIO) took place from June 6-9, 2016 in San Francisco and attracted over 15,000 biotechnology and pharma leaders. The event covered a wide spectrum of life science and application areas including drug...
read moreChronic wounds are wounds that do not heal quickly. They bleed frequently, often develop into infections and can turn into ulcers if they are not treated properly. Treating chronic wounds is a tremendous burden for health care providers and systems. Patients...
read moreIt’s not a scene you’d expect on a Friday at 8 am: students filling up a university conference room, giving up their last weekend before finals. They’re all inextricably tied to a problem they don’t know yet. But somehow it...
read moreClick here to read Part I of this series. KAUST is helping the Kingdom diversify and become a knowledge-based economy by supporting and growing new technology start-ups and small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Vision 2030, released by Saudi Arabia’s Council...
read moreWith an open economy and a strong commitment to economic diversification and building a knowledge-based society, it is a good choice to do business and research in Saudi Arabia, particularly in the healthcare and biotechnology sector. Saudi Arabia is a...
read moreAhmed Alfadhel, a KAUST PhD candidate in electrical engineering and inventor, and Dr. Osman Bakr, Associate Professor, Material Science and Engineering at KAUST, were both recently named as ‘Top Five Innovators Under 35’ at the ‘9th MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup...
read moreEvery April 26, many organizations around the world celebrate World Intellectual Property (IP) Day to promote discussion of the role of intellectual property in encouraging innovation and creativity. World IP Day was launched in 2000 by the World Intellectual Property...
read moreThe nearer you get to putting a shape on your start-up idea, the greater the need to put a ‘financial picture’ together of what the business will look like. The ‘financial model’ shows the money version of the plan. There...
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