The General Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises (Monshaat), in partnership with King Abdulaziz and His Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (Mawhiba), has selected 20 research projects to provide individual consulting sessions to their owners by Monshaat's experts, in preparation for activating these projects in the market as small enterprises and convert them from an idea to economic impact. Monshaat analyzed 151 scientific projects that qualified for the final fair of the National Olympiad for Scientific Creativity "Ibdaa 2020" and selected these 20 projects from among them, based on the criteria of clarity of the innovative product and the ability to invest it in a small enterprise. The selected projects are covering different fields including materials science, environmental engineering, physical energy, robots and smart devices, chemical energy, biomedicine and health sciences, software systems, chemistry in addition to botany. After the students have been qualified and previously completed training on entrepreneurial skills, and how to convert their research and scientific projects into commercial enterprises, within the partnership project between Monshaat, Mawhiba and the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property, Monshaat will provide services and consultative sessions to them in the coming days. The partnership between Mawhiba, Monshaat and the Saudi Authority for Intellectual Property will expand after benefiting from this experience, measuring its various aspects, so that it includes all students of Mawhiba to enhance their skills and support them to convert their projects and researches into projects of economic value in the future. Mawhiba seeks to enhance the reliance on mind, intellect, talent and creativity to achieve the objectives of the Kingdom's Vision 2030, and achieve what came in the second axis of it, which is redoubling efforts to ensure that the outcomes of our education system are in line with market need.
