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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">On campus, the department of arts and science has developed spaces for innovation such as the chemistry and physics laboratories. The engineering department, on the other hand, has a regional partnership with a program called TechShop this is accessible to students of the same college.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">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></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">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></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">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></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">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></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">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 Center. The main motivation for this is, that some of the applied research projects could actually become commercial products for startups. So after the prototype phase, the Innovation center could help them with go to market phase.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
=== <span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Engaging with regional and local economic development efforts</span></span> ===
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">The main contribution from ADU is naturally talented graduates for the job market. ADU strives to develop student profiles that have the skills and attitudes needed for the future workplace, and for advancing the local economy. The regional economic development programs like in5 and UAE innovates is open to all whether applying through an institute or independently. ADU doesn’t have any official partnership with these programs, but if taken into consideration it may be possible. However, ADU innovation center and faculties inform students about contests and encourage them to apply.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;">Collaboration is already in place with TechShop but limited to students majoring in engineering. There are regular educational trips held that incorporate innovation as a result of successful companies. At ADU the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs plays a key role in helping students patent their ideas with Takamul program, and cover part of the patenting cost. They also inform and support research applications to national level competitions and sponsorship programs.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;"></span></span></p>== Links == [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Abu_Dhabi_University_Student_Priorities Abu_Dhabi_University_Student_Priorities] [http://universityinnovation.org/Haleema%20Mulla%20Bakhsh Haleema_Mulla_Bakhsh] [http://universityinnovation.org/wiki/User:Saleha.muhammad Saleha_muhammad] [http://universityinnovation.org/Basant%20Helal Basant_Helal] [http://universityinnovation.org/BettyLucille BettyLucille] [http://universityinnovation.org/Sarah%20Eladly Sarah_Eladly] [http://universityinnovation.org/AYESHA%20ZAHID AYESHA_ZAHID] [http://universityinnovation.org/User%3AEman.Ali Eman.Ali]<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p>
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