Khalifa University holds first class on innovation and technology management

Press release

Published October 17th, 2012 - 09:23 GMT

Al Bawaba

Khalifa University announced today that it has held the first class in a new course in Innovation and Technology Management at its Sharjah campus. The class was designed by the Istituto di Management-Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna for Khalifa University, and will run from October 14^th to the 18^th, with a second course to follow in 2013.

H.E. Ambassador Giorgio Starace, Italian ambassador to the UAE, , together with Caio Mussolini, the Head of Finmeccanica in the Middle East, a leading Italian industrial group in the high technology sector, attended the opening of the course in order to celebrate the growing ties between Khalfia University and Italy.

The Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna is a public university from Pisa, Italy. It focuses on the field of applied sciences and the promotion of the development of scientific and technological research and innovation by being involved in university, post-university and continuous education, and is one of the leading academic partners of the high technology industrial group Finmeccanica

The course will be open to current KU post graduate students, and is financially supported by the Italian Ministry of Education and Research.

“We are honored that His Excellency, Ambassador Starace was able to inaugurate this exciting new course,” said Dr. Khaled Mubarak, Assistant Director, Khalifa University’s Sharjah campus. “This course is the result of a promising cooperation between two institutions that are dedicated to modernization and innovation, and finding new and innovative ways to educate tomorrow’s future leaders.”

He continued, “Khalifa University is always looking for ways to further the education of its students, and to create lasting partnerships with like-minded organizations, that will inevitably help the UAE achieve its goals and create a sustainable knowledge economy.”

“Finmeccanica is proud to have facilitated the fulfillment of this first course with an UAE University, as we believe our activities in the country should not be limited to industrial collaborations only” said Caio Mussolini, “Innovation as a constant value for Finmeccanica has been an integral part of our history and evolution. It is the key to our success and has allowed the Group to assume a leadership role in technology at the worldwide level”.

Background Information

Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research

The newly-established Khalifa University of Science and Technology (KU) combines the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (MI), the Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR) and the Petroleum Institute (PI) into one world-class, research-intensive institution, seamlessly integrating research and education to produce world leaders and critical thinkers in applied science and engineering. Khalifa University endeavors to be a leader among research intensive universities of the 21st century, while catalyzing the growth of Abu Dhabi and the UAE’s rapidly developing knowledge economy.