In a speech delivered on his patronage to the Entrepreneurship Program, Prof. Abdul Aziz Al Hammed Rector of PSAU said the university is very keen to keep pace with what is happening in the Kingdom regarding the developments and strengthening of the national economy. However the Entrepreneurship program " Rowad ", is the first seeds that will contribute significantly to enhance the sources of income for our sons and daughters in the province of Kharj and the provinces served by the university as well. He added the University is eager to create the right environment for the success of such future projects to embrace the students and other sons and daughters of the homeland who have creative ideas can turn into economic projects hosted by the University and work on the development and strengthen to be a very important economic contributor, The potential for the success of these projects: administratively or economically, as well as contribute to the field of planning and the program is able to combine financiers and between planning within the university.
The forum began with a speech delivered by Rector, then, six partnership agreements were signed with the concerned entities in entrepreneurship. (King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology represented by Bader Business incubators program, Agricultural Development Fund, Social Development Bank, Al-Kharj Branch of the National Entrepreneurship Institute, Al-Kharj Chamber of Commerce, and the Intellectual Property and Technology Licensing Program at Prince Sattam University)
Later on, Prof. Al Hammed toured the headquarters of the program where he was briefed on all the facilities and equipment of the program, and make sure that it is ready to start to perform its tasks for which it was established. After that, the Rector inaugurated an exhibition of pioneering works in which he reviewed the experiences of the university students in various disciplines in the field of entrepreneurship, which represent an added value in the economy based on their acquired skills within the university and related leading institutions.
Moreover, Dr. Ahmad Ajina Acting Dean of Business Administration College and owner of the program idea delivered a speech stating the goals and outputs that the program seeks to reach, in line with the Kingdom's efforts and distinctive contribution to achieving the vision 2030. In conclusion, Dr. Ajina said that the initiative is the property of all, and the standard of contribution does not exceed the circle of striving to activate the objectives set by the program for itself. After that, a documentary film about the program was presented about its inception, its goals and its outputs, and then the students, through the television network, reviewed their distinguished pioneering experiences, methods of identifying their cognitive abilities and mechanisms of employing them or translating them into existing projects.
At the end of the program, a number of pioneers and business leaders reviewed their pioneering experiences and highlighted their successes in the business world and the efforts they made to achieve these successes. Afterwards, an open dialogue was held in which the questions and questions of the attendees were answered about the program. Furthermore, the participants reached a number of recommendations; The most important of these were the need to provide the incubator environment for creativity, innovation, development, and entrepreneurship within the University of Prince Sattam, and activate the role of the university in transforming research and pilot studies into practical projects and practices. Investors and businessmen to embrace and embrace young people with pioneering experiences in the field of entrepreneurship, as well as access to an organization where the program achieves its objectives by seeking to create new job opportunities and support pioneering work.
