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The ICT Innovation Partnership Symposium 1

InfoDev 1-2-2006Innovation Partnership Model

Academic Entrepreneurship Center of Excellence (AECE)

Educational based Incubation Facility

Amjed Al-Fahoum

USA Ambassador Visit

InfoDev 1- 2 - 2006AECE Briefing

Objectives Strengthen Academic/Industry Links through the

available industrial incubators within the AECE.

Develop Students skills through Enhanced/practical learning environment on both business & technical sides.

Develop and Deliver Electronic Solutions to the public & private sectors.

Build capacity and expertise within local community.



In-campus Industry Incubation

Incubation has many benefits 1. Access to the university resources and

community 2. Offering Low cost space 3. Partners will gain prestige, acceptance

and publicity 4. Offer opportunities to students and

faculty to work on industrial projects

Yarmouk University

Center of excellence

Students

Faculties

Entrepreneurs Ideas

Incubators

To the market



In-campus Industry Incubation

Scope of workFinancial systems, Risk management, E-Services, E-Learning, Data Management Systems, Medical and Pharmaceutical applications, Build Business & IT strategies and solutions, and training.

Facilities Separate working space Responsible for providing Communications

equipment and Internet Services



Training and Consultancy

Provides the training courses in both technical, Business and soft skills.

Support the trainee in many ICT fields such as Process Re-engineering, Authentication Systems , Knowledge Management, E-learning Systems and linkage with legacy Systems



Business Incubation

Was established By YEA

Provides and Facilitates managerial, technical and business know how consultancy services

Encourages capital investment in the start-ups with proper business models

Establishes a community reach-out process



Industry Incubators

MBRM Incubator Develop a software for Trade and Risk

Management Provides training and job opportunities to

students

CCS incubator Develop Relational Database Management

Systems Employ Fourth Generation Languages and

cutting-edge tools such as ORACLE, JAVA, XML and HTML, MS. SQL SERVER.



Industry Incubators (Cons.)

MobileCom incubator Allows student to work in the advanced

mobile communication infrastructure field.

F@CT incubator Specialized in software systems

development of interest-free banking, Islamic insurance, manufacturing, trading and education.

Extentrix incubatorBuilding main frame software using cirex

plateform.



Industry Incubators (Cons.)

Eskadenia incubator Participates in the development of IT curriculum

for the concerned faculties Support the research and development with the

academia

AIM Wireless Specialized in the wireless communications

research and projects

ITG incubator web-based distributed e-learning solution

products



Industry Incubators (Cons.) Mansour Incubator

A comprehensive tele-health database is being developed in collaboration with students.

Conducting research on raw materials for possible medical drugs.

Savvytek Incubator Cooperates with Gartner and Sun

Microsystems to build the University Capacity and expertise

Develop and deploy high-quality eService solutions



Business Incubation

Was established By YEA Provides and facilitates managerial,

technical and business know how consultancy services

Encourages capital investment in the start-ups with proper business models

Establishes a community reach-out process



Main projects

Main projects have been identified according to international methodologies and standards:

E-government service - for Jordan Investment Board in partnership with Savvytek and Gartner Consultants.

E-government service for Ministry of Industry & Trading (MIT).

Yarmouk University Public Relation

Portal.



Ongoing Projects

Establishment of a biomedical Center of Excellence

Knowledge Management System Developing an Advisory System for

High school students.



Events

ICT Symposium Aims at Identifying venues of

collaboration and reforms to better understand industry challenges

recommendations will help in envisioning, driving and formulating Jordan ICT higher education strategies

Industry-University Collaboration


InfoDev 1- 2 - 2006AECE BriefingImplementation Model

Professionals Diploma

Academic Entrepreneurship Center of Excellence

Development Setup

Development Setup

R & D

YU

Substantia

l

Professional

Research

Public/Private Sector

CCS

Savvytek

Mobilecom

ITG

F@ct MPRM

Eskadnia

AIM

Mansour

Business Analysis

Project Management Financial

Analysis

HR

Demand

Require

ment

Technology Development

Industry IncubatorsIndustry Incubators

Training & ConsultancyTraining & Consultancy

Competent Graduates Technology

Transfer

Business IncubatorBusiness

Incubator

Management Team



Challenges

Cultural Barriers Private Sector support. Slow Response Lack of legal framework for

patenting and IPR. Lack of Funding for modern

complex facility and micro-financing for innovative ideas.

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