RIYADH: Staff and students at Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University have been urged to sign up to a five-day course that encourages innovative business startups, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
The course will be run by the university’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center on Sunday. The “boot camp” will include 20 hours of specialized training workshops focusing on the culture of innovation.
Participants will be encouraged to identify a product and work out business and marketing plans, including how to raise funding through public and private partnerships, and navigate government regulations. The workshops are aimed at preparing citizens to fulfill the aims of Vision 2030, which focuses on sustainable economic development.
Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University on Tuesday signed a memorandum of cooperation, in the education, engineering and research fields, with the Global R&DB Center at Seoul National University.
The virtual signing ceremony was attended by the university’s President Dr. Einas bint Suleiman Al-Eisa, and the director of the Seoul center, Dr. Jun-Seok Hwang.
The agreement will ensure cooperation in terms of research, teaching, and symposiums in the field.
