27/09/2016
In a workshop held yesterday
The head of Bader administration for technology incubators in the Eastern
Region, Ahmed Al Qaseer confirmed that the program seeks to provoke the culture
and environment of entrepreneurship and innovation and raising the level of qualifications
and talents in this regard by embracing new ideas and projects and convert them
to existing projects.
Al Qaseer said in a workshop organized
by the program in collaboration with the Committee of Communications and
Information Technology of Asharqia Chamber yesterday Tuesday, September 27,
2016 that the program by sponsoring new
ideas aimes to diversify the economy and support knowledge based economy, and
adopting improved international practices and the creation of improved support
policies that suit the ambitions and needs of entrepreneurs locally, the
support and development of the fields and industries required by the local
competitive environment, take advantage of local resources and using the
strengths and opportunities points.
He added that the program starts in its activity of a particular understanding
of the concept of entrepreneurship, which means innovation and provides a good
or service that solves a problem, or involves with new solutions, and that the entrepreneur
is the initiator person is the one characterized with insisting and adventure,
and has the talent to adapt to the changing market.
Al Qaseer pointed to the large number of investors, businessmen and women professionals
in the field of information technology that the program offers its customers
entrepreneurs legal and accounting, technical, and marketing, and consulting services
as well as assistance in obtaining convenient financing from funding agencies,
and the main goal of the program is to transform ideas and innovations to
existing projects .. He pointed that the simple requirements of the program consider
innovation and persistence and sticking to information technology.
Al Qaseer
pointed that among the services is the incubating of projects,
and the speeding ones, and the difference between the two is that the incubator relates to an existed project where it is
supported with services, while speeding taking a new idea that is applicable
and turn it into an existing project after the idea and owner pass a training
and qualification program that takes the idea to action and to work on the
ground.
He said that the program has been embraced for 8 years 127 projects with a
total worth of 230 million riyals, provided about 700 jobs, and 16 projects of
the incubated projects have graduated and achieved first attraction by
international companies, and work is ongoing to improve the development in
various regions of the Kingdom, including the eastern region, which will open a
branch in the program within the next year.
The workshop has been moderated by a member of the Chamber Board of Directors
and Chairman of the Information and Communication Technology Ibrahim Al Sheikh,
who has complemented the programs Bader, one of King Abdul Aziz City Programs
for Science and Technology, that works effectively since it was founded in 2007
to develop and grow and support the entrepreneurial
process in the technical fields, also for its role in bridging the gap between
ideas and the capital owners.
Al Sheikh said : "Everyone knows that communication and information
technology sector are of the most competitive sectors not in the Kingdom, but
also in the whole world, as it depends in the development and growth on the non
conventional ideas that are convertible into successful business, that will
open multiple production channels provide more job opportunities for Saudi
youth of both sexes. Therefor, the program "Bader" with its variety of
services and support opportunities, especially for telecommunications and
information technology sector projects and enhancing the concept of leadership
and technical work, as a preferable opportunity for the communication
technology and information technology top figures, as it depends in its
progress on the unconventional in various products of the sector of electronic
and e-content such as trade and cloud computing and social networking, and others.
He pointed that this workshop is a real opportunity for the owners of ideas and
researchs in technical fields to see and get to know what the program
"Baader for technology incubators" presents of of consulting and
other services, that aim at transforming ideas into projects that will support our
national choices about localization policies and entrepreneurship and the
technical creativity .
Al Sheikh praised the collaboration and communication between Asharqia Chamber on
one hand and King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology on the other hand;
in provoking and supporting the technical sector, both as for its interactive role in supporting the localization
decision of the sector or in supporting all that could push the sector towards
the pursuit growth locally and internationally, also the progress of
entrepreneurship and innovation in the technical field between young men and
women of the country who have creative technology ideas in early stages ..
At the end of the workshop, the audience have participated and then the guest has
been honored with a memorial shield presented by the head of the board of directors of the
Chamber member Ibrahim Al Sheikh.
