Under the patronage of His Excellency Dr. Naeem Al-Aboudi, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, and in the presence of the Ministry‘s Undersecretary for Scientific Research Affairs, Prof. Dr. Haider Abdul-Zahd, and the Director General of the Research and Development Department, Prof. Dr. Lubna Khamis, along with a group of expert professors from the Islamic Republic of Iran, faculty members from Al-Hamdaniya University participated in a training workshop titled “Innovation Management to Enhance Business Incubators and Science and Technology Parks in Universities.“ The workshop was organized by the Research and Development Department of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and hosted by the University of Baghdad.
Participants from Al-Hamdaniya University included:
– Dr. Dhulfiqar Ali Zakir, Assistant Professor and Director of the Laser and Photonics Center.
– Dr. Abdul Rahman Ismail Ahmed, Lecturer and Head of the Department of Physics at the College of Education for Pure Sciences.
– The Head of the Technological Incubator Division at the university.
The workshop, organized by the Department of Research and Development at the Ministry of Higher Education and hosted by the University of Baghdad, aimed to strengthen strategic leadership among incubator managers and to support entrepreneurship and startup ventures. It also contributes to achieving several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).