ETISALAT-BT INNOVATION CENTRE (EBTIC)
KUSTAR has entered into partnership with the Emirates Telecommunication Corporation (ETISALAT) and British Telecommunications plc (BT) to establish the Etisalat-BT Innovation Centre (EBTIC) that will be hosted in KUSTAR's premises.
The EBTIC vision is: to be an enabler for innovation in the UAE through investment in people by creating one of the largest Next Generation Networks, Systems and Services research and innovation centres in the Middle East. The mission of the centre is to:
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Establish an advanced technology centre of excellence for research and innovation in Next Generation Networks and ICT Systems and Services.
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Promote world-class research, technology transfer, research training and open innovation.
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Put in place the support infrastructure to facilitate, encourage and enable industry collaboration with the UK and UAE research-active academic institutions and governments.
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Be an inter-disciplinary effort involving major IT companies and top Universities.
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Achieve commercial exploitation of its research and innovation outputs by the centre's industrial partners as well as through licensing arrangements, and the formation of spin-out companies.
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Create a virtual graduate research school to provide postgraduate research training/exchange/industrial internship opportunities for citizens of the UAE.
For more information please visit EBTIC website: www.kustar.ac.ae/ebtic
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