Yesterday, Sunday, 28/2/1441 A.H., the Innovation and Intellectual Property Center held a meeting entitled "Turning the Graduation Project into a Product" at the College of Engineering. The meeting introduced the "Ibtikar 20 Incubator" and its features in supporting graduation projects and incentive awards, with the aim of spreading the spirit of competition and raising the level of the university graduates' projects and contributing to turning them into promising products with economic value to support the innovation and creativity index in achieving the Kingdom's Vision 2030.
The meeting was introduced by Dr. Abdullah Al-Muhaimid, Supervisor of the Innovation and Intellectual Property Center at the university, who introduced the incubator and gave a detailed explanation of it, with the aim of motivating graduate students to invest in their projects and turn them into promising products that serve the knowledge economy in line with the Kingdom's Vision 2030.
The meeting also presented the basics of project success, which are the customers' desire for the final product, its applicability, and its economic feasibility, and introduced the various programs offered by the Center for Innovation and Intellectual Property to achieve this goal, including the Ibtikar 20 incubator and the Entrepreneurs Camp.
The Ibtikar 20 Incubator aims to spread and promote the culture of innovation and intellectual property, contribute to the excellence of graduation projects and direct them towards creating promising economic products, incubate innovative ideas for graduation projects, link promising and distinguished projects with local investors, and file patents.