How UAE-based universities must be refurbished as creative free zones

How UAE-based universities must be refurbished as creative free zones

"We want our universities to not only graduate students, but also create companies and employers.“ This was the challenge set forth by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, in the government's Fifty Year Charter published early in 2019.

Universities have long been a natural breeding ground for enterprise and innovation. Entrepreneurship is a journey; a process of self-actualisation that can be learnt and cultivated by anyone. As much an art as a science, it requires a change in mindset that embodies both personal and professional growth.

So if we are to shift from the organic route into entrepreneurship that we have seen in universities for years, to a process that both stimulates and facilitates enterprise activity, educators need to start