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Director's Message

Dr. Abdullah Mohammed AL Shukaili

Dr. Abdullah Mohammed AL Shukaili
Executive Director,
Entrepreneurship Center
The Team Leader
for Oman GEM Project

Entrepreneurship is widely regarded as an engine for change and prosperity. Several studies have drawn attention to the fact that entrepreneurship is the most important aspect of economic growth in the areas of creating jobs, introducing innovation, facilitating the transfer of knowledge and technology, and improving the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Many Universities around the world have established facilities to facilitate their students' business ideas by offering various entrepreneurial academic and non-academic courses/programs, incubations to nurture student business ideas, and in many cases provide funding/seed capital to transform student business ideas into actual businesses. University is considered as a favorable environment for innovation due to its high concentration of intellectual capital and knowledge, where future entrepreneurs can arise among the students. The commercialization of the universities' innovation and research becomes the central strategy in the national level to drive the economic growth and development. Today, universities are playing a vigorous role to enhance and encourage the knowledge-based economies.

Director's Message

Director's Message

Entrepreneurship is widely regarded as an engine for change and prosperity. Several studies have drawn attention to the fact that entrepreneurship is the most important aspect of economic growth in the areas of creating jobs, introducing innovation, facilitating the transfer of knowledge and technology, and improving the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Many Universities around the world have established facilities to facilitate their students' business ideas by offering various entrepreneurial academic and non-academic courses/programs, incubations to nurture student business ideas, and in many cases provide funding/seed capital to transform student business ideas into actual businesses.

University is considered as a favorable environment for innovation due to its high concentration of intellectual capital and knowledge, where future entrepreneurs can arise among the students. The commercialization of the universities' innovation and research becomes the central strategy in the national level to drive the economic growth and development.

Today, universities are playing a vigorous role to enhance and encourage the knowledge-based economies.

Entrepreneurship Center Overview


Facts & Figures for Academic Year 2022-2023

Mission

To serve as an excellence center by providing outstanding education and training for students and society, significant and relevant research, together with aspiring capacity building and building local and global collaboration in the fields of entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation.

Vision

To be a locally and globally recognized entrepreneurship center to promote entrepreneurship and support the transformation of knowledge to the market. The UoNEC aims to assist and support the innovative and entrepreneurial activities at the UoN campus and the society, and support the knowledge commercialization.

Vision

To be a locally and globally recognized entrepreneurship center to promote entrepreneurship and support the transformation of knowledge to the market. The UoNEC aims to assist and support the innovative and entrepreneurial activities at the UoN campus and the society, and support the knowledge commercialization.

Entrepreneurship Center Services

EC Programs


Education

  • Providing academic programs for entrepreneurship education for undergraduates.
  • Providing academic programs for entrepreneurship education for graduate students.
  • Providing special programs for the community.

Research

The Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Nizwa is working to establish a headquarters for entrepreneurship research in the Sultanate of Oman; to be the representative of the Sultanate in the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor; it will also increase the number of research and publishing papers in entrepreneurship activities in the Sultanate and other countries, and encourages scientists and faculty from all over The world in conducting research in the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation and knowledge transfer. and that is through:

  • Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
  • Research projects
  • Conferences
  • Consultancy Services
  • Scientific Publications
  • Scientific Journals

Capacity Building

The Entrepreneur Center at the University of Nizwa will contribute to developing the capabilities of entrepreneurship for students of the University of Nizwa, employees and the Omani community, through mentoring, training, workshops and incubator programs, through the following programs:

  • Training workshops
  • Success stories
  • Field visits
  • Exhibitions and external events
  • Incubations Unit
  • Mentorship Program (Entrepreneurship Clinic)
  • Open Sources)

Collaboration and Engagement

The Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Nizwa will build academic cooperation with all members of the entrepreneurial ecosystem and its partners at the national and global levels, by exchanging knowledge and expertise in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation, and signing several memoranda of understanding between all partners in the context of learning, training and research.

  • Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
  • Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
  • Center partners
  • Supporters of the center

Capacity Building

Publications

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GEM Oman 2022-2023
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GEM global 2021-2022
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GEM Oman 2021-2022
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GEM Oman 2020-2021
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News & Social Media

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+968 25446616

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ep@unizwa.edu.om

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Instagram

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Youtube

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