knowledge economy, Al-Jazirah and Okaz newspapers said that Saudi Arabia has been proceeding towards a steady base-knowledge economy and a long-term strategy through qualifications of citizens who are the major goals of development. The papers asserted that the Program of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Program of Foreign Scholarships will enable tens of thousands of Saudi students to gain specializations at the most prestigious universities in the world, and when they come back, they will make qualitative developments in all fields. The papers noted that Saudi Arabia has realized the importance of nanotechnology and its future applications through the personal attention paid to it by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah Ibn Abdulaziz, who donated to it from his own money, as well as the establishment of specialized institutes in technology. --More
