Dr. Boon S. Ooi, a professor of engineering at KAUST, has developed a new laser-based horticultural technology that could significantly benefit the agri-foods industry, especially in places with limited sunlight such as Northern Europe or with limited water/soil such as...
read moreAs you walk into KAUST’s Innovation Cluster, there is a plaque that gives me inspiration every time I see it. It reads ‘Patience, Persistence, Perseverance.’ The quote is advice to KAUST pioneers back in 2010 from His Excellency Ali I....
read moreUniversities hoping to commercialize the innovations of their students, staff and researchers are paying more attention than ever to developing strong partnerships with industry and focusing on collaborations that have tangible social and economic benefits. KAUST was created with such...
read moreA new flexible lithium sulfur battery developed at KAUST could significantly improve the battery life and safety of rechargeable batteries. The technology has been developed by the team led by Lain-Jong Li, an associate professor of material science and engineering...
read moreTwo KAUST students won a ‘Best Poster’ award at the ‘Saudi Arabia Smart Grid Conference on Smart Grids and Sustainable Energy,’ which was held in Jeddah from December 7 to 9, 2015. Mustafa Mousa and Ahmad Dehwah, KAUST PhD students...
read moreIt is important to properly develop a product from the laboratory to the manufacturing floor. To encourage this step, KAUST has invested in a number of scale-up labs. One the most commercially promising projects to come out of these ‘innovation...
read moreAt KAUST, research doesn’t end with a completed study or even a published article. We encourage researchers to protect their inventions and put them on track for commercialization—so their ideas can make the greatest possible impact on the region and the...
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 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...
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