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There’s more space for R&D culture now
ABU DHABI - The businesses and government agencies in the UAE are receptive to helping create a research and development (R&D) culture in the country, according to the heads of the universities that comprise the University Leadership Council (ULC).
“We have some success. The National Research Foundation (NRF) is now starting to fund some research,” said Dr Rory Hume, provost of the UAE University.
Dr Peter Heath, Chancellor of the American University of Sharjah (AUS), disclosed that an entity visited the campus recently and checked its R&D capabilities.
The Khalifa University (KU), on the other hand is “quickly growing up in aerospace”, building its faculty capability for the aerospace research centre currently being developed in partnership with Mubadala Aerospace.
“It will have to do with composite structures and that is going to be a research centre for us in future,” Dr Tod Laursen, president of KU, told Khaleej Times. In addition, KU is also looking at working with Dassault Aviation in France after a number of its aerospace engineers went for internship there this month. “There is now awareness ... that they have to give some R&D sponsorships into universities in order to (develop) the manpower that they need,” said Dr Fred Moavenzadeh, president of Masdar Institute. In a media roundtable meeting on Tuesday to discuss the council’s ‘White Paper’, Dr Moavenzadeh said that during the past 15 months, Masdar Institute has raised 20 to 25 per cent of funded research.
The ‘White Paper’, which is being distributed by the ULC and written in Arabic and English, laid out the benefits of establishing a research and development culture. It highlighted the role of the industry, government and the academia, the value of human capital development, the importance of structured financing and personal and institutional incentives.
“Industry can and should broaden its participation in the development of a robust research and development culture by engaging academic institutions in areas of interest to their sectors as well as to their enterprise, by providing funding that engages students and faculty in relevant research and development activities,” the White Paper stated.
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