Promoting Innovation in Saudi Arabia

Promoting Innovation in Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is now one of the proclaimed leaders globally when it comes to research and development industry. This is particularly true investments that come along the way such as pharmaceutical, agrochemical and other fields.

It is now one of the government’s top priorities. To build an innovative and knowledge-based industry and to transform the economy and infrastructure is mainly the vision.

Assistance for research and development

In order to encourage activities that involve research, the research centers in Saudi Arabia offer significant moves regarding finance and research grants through organizations and institutions such KACST or King Abdul-Aziz Center for Science and Technology and KACST also known as King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. As a matter of fact, KSA also open new opportunities for the researcher and related courses.

KSA pursues basic and goal-oriented research with the different R&D centers by collaborate partnership with other institutes. In the near future the country with its vision to innovation, aims to:

• Creation of new technologies and development and transfer

Of course, the more research and studies conducted, the more products and inventions will be produced. That will definitely mean improvement and new trends in the market. Thus, increase in revenues and a new stream of income for the kingdom.

• More jobs to create

Increasing the numbers of jobs locally in the region would mean a lot to the nation. This would establish financial stability and productivity of the Kingdom.

• Promotes the spirit of willingness towards innovation and opportunity, passion and vision and risk and reward
• Create spin-off companies and corporation
• Develop the scientific workforce and translate knowledge into production

Research Center with distinct specialization within national universities and other government firms and institution give a precise and integrated procedure for transferring and localizing technology and plays a very essential role in supporting the activities of technology incubators, science parks and technology development centers.  Aside from, projects such as GIS projects are being supported to promote innovation and technology.

Furthermore, GISTIC were built.  GISTIC, also known as Geographic Information System Technology Innovation Center is research centers that contribute for us to better understand, visualize, manage and analyze the spacing and all stuffs in Saudi Arabia. The kingdom and this institute both aims to transform Saudi Arabia towards GIS innovation that would further make a knowledge-based economy and would probably meet the needs catering the said innovation. This research institute is being formulated in a GIS center. GIS centers allows everyone to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize the world in ways that would tell relationship, patterns and trends in the form of maps, globes, report and charts.

Summarizing the statements above, promoting innovation also means supporting other fields that involve the innovation which mainly comprise of the Education section, research and development and science and technology.  Cooperation among government agency, institution and firms is really important. Without it, the market will be nothing and the country will not be able to reach its maturity thus can’t cope to the needs of the trends of the changing world.  

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