Mentoring: Why do it?
It’s a new year and a time for new resolutions. There is a strong chance that your goals are similar to last year: travel more, balance, exercise, eat healthier, etc. But what if this year one of your resolutions was…
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Corporate Innovation: An oxymoron?
Corporates are what successful start-ups become when they grow-up. They transform from feisty teenagers ready to take on and change the world into conservative middle-agers protecting their investments and not wanting to rock the boat. While start-ups search for new…
Walk in the shoes of your stakeholders
In this post, our REVelate international mentor Brian Hayes shares his expertise in how to keep your stakeholders happy. Exactly who are stakeholders and how does it affect your business? Read on. Find success with stakeholders Contributor: Brian Hayes, KAUST International Mentor Group…
Get innovating! Ten tips to jumpstart your career
So you want to dominate your career…what’s next? Guest blogger, REVelate mentor and corporate innovator John Eager shares how to get noticed on the job, and take your work skills to the next level. Ten tips to jumpstart your career Contributor: John…
ASU and KAUST partner on innovation and entrepreneurial programming
Tempe, Ariz., April 10, 2017 – Arizona State University has launched a trans-Atlantic partnership with one of the world’s fastest growing research universities, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), which is located along the coast of the Red…
The Eight Rules of Financial Projections
The 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…
Working at KAUST Provides a Front Seat View to Saudi Arabia’s Economic Diversification Efforts
Saudi Arabia is making huge efforts to diversify its economy and attract foreign investment. Since acceding to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2005, the Kingdom has started to simplify its regulatory regime, open up key sectors to foreign investment…
WEP Sessions Highlight the Importance of Design Thinking at KAUST
During next week’s KAUST Winter Enrichment Program (WEP), Innovation and Economic Development’s Entrepreneurship Center will be delivering a program for students called ‘ICED in the Desert,’ which combines teaching and workshops on innovation, creativity entrepreneurship and design thinking. As part…
Numerical Porous Media: Science-Industry Collaboration that is Working
KAUST Strategic Research Initiative (SRI) Center for Numerical Porous Media, or NumPor, is a prime example of how Economic Development at KAUST is already making inroads with industry. The NumPor Center was established in March of 2012. In June, the…