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== <span style="font-size:medium;">'''Promoting student innovation and entrepreneurship'''</span> ==
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Abu Dhabi University offers a wide range of courses and </span>extra-curricular activities to convey the idea <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">of innovation and entrepreneurship to the students. The university </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">has</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> got around 20 30 courses that expose the students to the I&E ecosystem.</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Various clubs such as the Entrepreneur club and Beta Sigma Gamma club have been significantly </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">delivering the I&E concept on campus. Creative thinking workshops are held weekly by the innovation center, to welcome creative ideas from students of all majors.</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The university also organizes various annual competitions such as ADU innovates and contests for </span>full-pitch to <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">encourage innovative researches. </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Also,</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> the mandatory internship program helps the students develop critical organizational skills and an entrepreneurial mindset. </span>
=== <span style="font-size:medium;">'''Facilitating university-industry collaboration'''</span> ===
<span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Mentoring, guidance and</span></span></span><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:small;">advises</span><span style="font-size:small;">are accessible to students of all majors and different campuses. </span><span style="font-size:small;">On campus</span><span style="font-size:small;">programs are known as ADU innovates, ADU idea drop, and the Research and Development </span><span style="font-size:small;">centre</span><span style="font-size:small;">. The main motivation for this is, that some of the applied research projects could actually become commercial products for </span><span style="font-size:small;">start ups</span><span style="font-size:small;">. So after the prototype phase </span><span style="font-size:small;">Innovation</span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#696969;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">enter could help them with go to market phase.</span></span></span>
=== <span style="font-size:medium;">'''Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts'''</span> ===
