ABCURR Entrepreneurial Institute معهد أبكِرْ لريادة الاعمال

ABCURR Entrepreneurial Institute is the first knowledge-based institution specializing in building sustainable innovation ecosystems towards a sustainable knowledge economy transition in MENA. More specifically, at ABCURR Entrepreneurial Institute, we initially focus on higher education institutions. To assist universities in accomplishing their third mission - beyond the mission of teaching and research - the mission of innovation by building sustainable university-based entrepreneurial ecosystems, empowering entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic development within universities and the broader community. bridging the gap between academia and industry, fostering an environment where entrepreneurial ideas can thrive and contribute to societal, economic, and environmental development. Hence, shifting the paradigm from a higher education system generating job seekers graduates to job creators graduates, fully committed to resolving the most challenging issues of the planet by creating sustainable social, economic, and environmental solutions based on the knowledge they have learned during their higher education journey. We provide the following programs: - ABCURR Education "LEARN": Optimizing knowledge enabling the capacity of entrepreneurs to recognize or create an opportunity and act upon it to produce innovative sustainability solutions - ABCURR Incubation "TEST": Providing incubation programs to walk student entrepreneurs from the idea to the prototype phase of their projects with capacity building and practical mentoring - ABCURR Immersion "GO": Promoting entrepreneurial innovation culture, on a global scale by organizing immersive study trips to explore new entrepreneurial ecosystems Ensuring Universities' Shift Towards Sustainable Knowledge Economy Transition “Carrying out innovation is the only function which is fundamental in history”, Schumpeter (1939).