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Academic Incubator Start-ups Initiative for 21st -century teaching and learning. Ibahrine, Spring 2016

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Academic Incubator Start-upsInitiative for 21st -century teaching and learning.

Ibahrine, Spring 2016

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Inspiration HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

“We are building a new reality for our people, a new future for our children, and a new model of development”

“We are building a new reality for our people, a new future for our children, a new model of development”

InspirationHH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum

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Startup

A COMPANY working to solve a problem and success is not guaranteed

A CULTURE of innovating on existing ideas

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Business Incubator A facility to nurture startups

affordable spaceshared offices and serviceshand-on trainingmarketing support access to financing

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Academic Incubators Start-ups

A university spin-off is a new company founded to exploit a piece of intellectual property created in an academic institution (Shane, 2005: 4-5).

AIS is not an academic spin-off

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VisionAUS official vision❖ American University of Sharjah (AUS) will be

the region's leader in higher education, known for excellence and innovation in teaching, learning, research and service.

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The National InnovationStrategy

The Year of Innovation

Sharjah EntrepreneurshipCenter (Sheraa) 2016

2014

2015

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Idea It is not a cluster of classrooms.

❖ Exchanges disruptive ideas

❖ Translates concepts into a business project

❖ Turns the campus into a living incubator

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Objectives

1. To refine an action learning approach to creativity

2. To inspire students to improve networking skills

3. To raise awareness of disruptive technologies and their business models

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BenchmarksThese are the benchmarks of success for the Academic Start-up Incubator:

❖ 1. Creativity: ➢ The quantity and quality of disruptive ideas

❖ 2. Innovation: ➢ The application of projects, content and patents.

❖ 3. Participatory culture:➢ The quantity and quality of user-generated content

1. CREATIVITY: ➢ The quantity and quality of new ideas and concepts

2. INNOVATION: ➢ The application of projects, content and patents

3. PARTICIPATORY CULTURE: ➢ The quantity and quality of user-generated content

Benchmarksof success

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Makes students aware of the close relationship between university and the job market.

Makes the transition period from university to the business world shorter

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Academic IncubatorStart-ups

Helps the university to achieve its primary mission of creation and dissemination of knowledge through research and teaching

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Academic Incubator Start-ups

Reorient the university toward business goals

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