By KAUST Innovation | July 21, 2014
Our latest technology video explains the integrated sensor system for monitoring urban floods and traffic congestions. For more information about the technology, click here.
read moreBy KAUST Innovation | July 14, 2014
The TTI team participated in the Sensors Expo & Conference that took place June 24–26 and showcased some of KAUST’s sensor-based technologies. The Sensors Expo & Conference is the only industry event in North America exclusively focused on sensors and...
read moreBy KAUST Innovation | July 8, 2014
The NOMADD system has gained a lot of interest from several companies and investors in the solar industry in the last year. Georg Eitelhuber, founder of the startup that is spun out of KAUST, was awarded earlier this year the...
read moreBy KAUST Innovation | June 24, 2014
KAUST’s first officially licensed open-source software package, KUBE (KAUST Unified Benchmarking Environment), developed by Craig Kapfer and his team in KAUST IT, has recently been released. KUBE is a flexible benchmarking framework, which may be used for analyzing performance of...
read moreBy KAUST Innovation | April 9, 2014
Dr. Sohail Malik has joined us as the new Director of Technology Transfer and Innovation. Coming to KAUST from University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia, USA, Dr. Malik brings over 20 years of experience in multidimensional management in the areas...
read moreBy Sami Bashir | January 13, 2014
Technology transfer is much more than processing invention disclosures and filing patents; it involves development of prototypes all the way to ferrying them along to the marketplace. Inventions do not become successful by mere accident or luck. Technology transfer is a...
read moreBy Raghid Shreih | December 31, 2013
In a recent report entitled “Encouraging a British Invention Revolution,” the CEO of GlaxoSmithKline, Sir Andrew Witty, highlights the importance of universities to economic growth. He notes that “the research strength of the UK’s universities is an enormous national asset,”...
read moreBy Oleg Iliev | November 19, 2013
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...
read moreBy Sami Bashir | November 5, 2013
With Saudi Arabia’s accession to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), there is much anticipation and discussion going on regarding the impact of the accession, particularly in our field of technology transfer. For example, people are wondering about impacts on patent...
read moreBy Hiromi Habuchi | October 30, 2013
As KAUST TTI’s patent administrator, my job is to keep the patent prosecution process moving. This is a harder task than you might think. I coordinate between TTI case managers, our outside counsel in the United States, and KAUST inventors....
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