KAUST has announced the launching of Hikma, a new Accelerator Program to help identify, develop and speed up the Intellectual Property-Based Startups. On March 21, 16 teams from KAUST and regional Universities took part in a three-day series of mentor-led...
read moreEntrepreneurship Center hosts graduation ceremony for participants of New Ventures Accelerator A fresh batch of innovative ideas is emerging in the Kingdom thanks to theEntrepreneurship Center at KAUST. On February 18, KAUST honored the first graduating class from its New...
read moreKAUST has partnered with Saudi Aramco and four other Saudi industrial and academic institutions in establishing the Saudi Arabia Advanced Research Alliance (SAARA) and Technovia, a new company that will focus on driving the commercialization and application of novel and...
read moreBreast cancer strikes some one in eight women. Treatments exist, but offer grim trade-offs: many are highly toxic, destroying healthy cells along with cancerous ones. Mandeep Kaur, Senior Research Scientist at the Biomolecular Lab in the Computational Bioscience Research Center...
read moreThe Falling Walls Lab, hosted recently by KAUST Graduate Affairs, featured 22 finalists who presented their product or venture idea to a high-profile panel of judges. These presentations are the result of a cumulative process that started in March of...
read moreKAUST began as a vision, perceived across a great expanse of dry, unremarkable desert sand. Five years – and some key ingredients later – it is growing into a global force of academics, and is a proud pillar of light...
read moreLast week, KAUST signed its first royalty-bearing license agreement for NOMADD, the “No Water, Mechanical, Automated, Dusting Device.” Licensing this technology to NOMADD Desert Solar Solutions, a startup spun out of the university, establishes an important basis for the future...
read moreIt takes more than a great idea to develop a commercially viable product. It takes intellectual property (IP) expertise, R&D resources, and effective business models to guide industry acceptance and adoption of new innovations. At KAUST, we’re especially aware of these...
read more“We are trying to become a hub for global energy research,” says Dr. Jean-Marie Basset, Director of the KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC). Dr. Basset is the developer of “surface organometallic chemistry,” a new field of chemistry that looks at catalytic...
read moreThe KAUST Kilo Lab is a scale-up facility that offers researchers in the areas of organic synthesis and homogeneous catalysis the opportunity to utilize KAUST’s expertise and know-how to commercialize their research. It supports the development and processing of pharmaceutical...
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