OVERVIEW

The exponential growth of knowledge led to the transformation of the global economy into an economy that relies on the scientific knowledge that achieves the most significant added value in this economy. The key to scientific knowledge is creativity and technology. The speed of economic change and the growing role of science and technology pose a challenge to the world's countries, even the developed ones, as globalization has brought down the barriers of distance and time, so technical progress has become the decisive link for achieving economic progress. Thus, universities must assume new roles that keep pace with the speed of economic change and anticipate the burdens and repercussions of this change in the current and future local conditions. As an extension of PSU's mission to develop research and innovation and preserve the rights of the university and researchers, and in an effort to localize technology, disseminate knowledge and serve the community, the university established the Intellectual Property (IP) Office at the Innovation Center (IC) to protect the intellectual property rights of inventors, creators and writers from the university's employees and students to ensure that their rights are protected when converting their innovations and creative ideas into Commercial and industrial products on the ground.

VISION

The Intellectual Property Protection Office at Prince Sultan University aspires to be the leading center in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to regulate and protect intellectual property rights within the scope of Prince Sultan University and locally throughout the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and to be a source of support, motivation and encouragement for creativity in all its forms and aspects.

MISSION

WHO WILL BENEFIT FROM THE "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" OFFICE?

All inventors working at PSU will benefit from the services of the IP office if they discover their inventions during the exercise of their job and academic duties or because of the material, technical or financial support provided by PSU directly, or indirectly through a research grant and funding programs, or cooperation and partnership agreements that it concludes with the governmental and private sectors, or because of the use of PSU’s equipment, tools, laboratories, or incubators, or if they come up with their inventions by their purely self-efforts.

Dr. Selma Abdulrahman

IP Specialist

Email: sabdulrahman@psu.edu.sa

Phone Ext: +966-11-4948797