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Promotion of Innovation Culture in the Higher Education in Jordan
Start date: Oct 15, 2015, End date: Oct 14, 2018 PROJECT  FINISHED 

INVENT project responds to one of Jordan’s priorities in promoting innovation and R&D to boost economy. It responds to the need for a professional profile able to work with an interdisciplinary approach that integrates knowledge and expertise in R&D on one hand, and in innovation-driven business on the other hand. The basic results of the project activities are the establishment of Centers for transfer of innovations (CTI) at the Jordanian universities and in non academic institutions. Their activity is provision of entrepreneurs with innovations for introduction into process of production. The target groups to which actions will be addressed are: staff and trainers of CTI, researchers and post graduate students; and technicians from industry who will benefit from innovation training, technology agreements with R&D centres for joint projects. The project will achieve the end users through tailored channels: young researchers by circulating information in the universities; business men and professionals, providing them with opportunities for access to the research facilities; scientists, bridging the scientific production with the business sector, and policy makers being informed through press releases and dissemination seminars. Final beneficiaries from the project activities will be:- the research centres attracting more investments in technology transfer and getting advantages from transnational networking,-the business communities, SMEs territorial districts and sectoral clusters, who will get the results of an increased flow of knowledge from labs to industry- young people leaving the higher education system, increasing their employment opportunities through business creation and modernization of existing companies.The team of facilitators, trained through the project, will assist the technology transfer process from then onwards and establish a long lasting network of cooperation among the labs and institutions involved.
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