World-class KAUST Facilities

Facilities at KAUST

KAUST is a deep tech ecosystem unlike anywhere else. We offer world-class facilities to support our community of the brightest minds working together to solve the future’s most urgent challenges.

KAUST Research and Technology Park (KRTP)

The KAUST Research & Technology Park (KRTP) is a destination for tech-based businesses to access KAUST’s laboratories, faculty and student talent and network of public spaces and facilities designed for creative collision and knowledge sharing.

KRTP currently covers over 2.7 million square meters of space near the heart of KAUST’s campus. The Park provides flexible research and development space for corporate partners, SMEs and startups.

Lab space and prototyping with KAUST Core Labs

KAUST Core Labs is a centrally organized, shared-use facility with specialized research equipment and expert engineers and scientists. </p

It’s a facility designed to foster innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship, deliver training in design and fabrication, and is open to the KAUST community, including startups and entrepreneurs.

KAUST Entrepreneurship Center

The KAUST Entrepreneurship Center delivers diverse programs and accelerators in entrepreneurship education and supports startup creation and acceleration.

On a mission to drive an entrepreneurial ecosystem across Saudi Arabia, The Entrepreneurship Centre offers training for KAUST students and innovators in the KSA and across the world.

TheSpace in Jeddah

KAUST offers startups participating in the TAQADAM accelerator program access to ‘TheSpace’ co-working spaces, located in Jeddah and Riyadh.

The collaborative environments are fully equipped with WiFi, meeting rooms, printing services and more, hosting networking activities to power the Saudi entrepreneurial community.