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<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Tawazun industrial park plays a crucial role in the economy with access only to industry personnel, but there may be scope for students’ partnership in the near future.</span></span></span>
<span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Gitex startup movement, Khalifa fund, and innovation 4 impact are considered sources of funding for entrepreneurs in the region. Innovation to impact is limited to digital entrepreneurs and companies. The government has also started the initiative and launched UAE innovates accessible to all residents of the UAE and a different program called as in5 is also open to students of all majors and entrepreneurs situated in the region. </span></span></span><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">We have had the Chancellors innovation awards for 6 years already with hundreds of submissions from faculty, staff and students on improving ADU internal operations. </span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">ADU also ran Technopreneur innovation contest for 4 years with Khalifa Fund. This was a UAE level innovation contest for any UAE based entrepreneur.</span></span></span></div><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">Mentoring, guidance and advises are accessible to students of all majors and different campuses. On campus programs are known as ADU innovates, ADU idea drop, and the Research and Development centre. The main motivation for this is, that some of the applied research projects could actually become commercial products for start ups. So after the prototype phase Innovation enter could help them with go to market phase.</span></span></span><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;"></span></span></span>
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<br/><span style="font-size:medium;">'''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts'''</span>