The scientific incubator project aims to:

• Communicate with university colleges to seek new creative student projects or assist in expanding existing student projects.
• Help students with innovations and inventions to turn their ideas into marketable products or services.
• Support technical, programming, industrial, and commercial student ideas.
• Collaborate with relevant governmental and private sectors.
• Connect with large companies and factories to receive expertise, knowledge, and technical support.
• Communicate with funding bodies to facilitate access to financial support for incubated projects.
• Identify investors and strategic partners.
• Develop technology transfer tools and promote a culture of innovation in the community.

• Providing technical support for incubated projects.
• Offering advisory services and facilities for incubated projects.
• Providing financial consultations for incubated projects.
• Offering administrative, marketing, and legal consultations in collaboration with strategic partners of the center.
• Training students with incubated projects in the skills they need for developing freelancing skills.
• Utilizing the available workshops and laboratories at the university.
• Reviewing the operational processes of incubated projects periodically to achieve set goals.
• Sourcing ideas for enrollment in the incubator.
• Supporting student projects in entrepreneurship courses.
• Supporting graduation projects in the final year.
• Encouraging students to initiate ideas that can be converted into private projects through faculty members in the colleges at Dhofar University.

Students with projects enrolled in the incubator will receive several benefits, including:

• A dedicated workspace.
• Access to facilities available in the incubator, such as internet-connected computers, printing of documents, etc.
• Utilization of the available laboratories and engineering workshops.
• Assistance in conducting feasibility studies for the project and receiving consultations in various fields such as management, marketing, design, production, accounting, and legal matters.
• Help in writing a business plan.
• Ongoing training according to the project’s needs.
• Reducing the time spent on licenses, commercial registration, and related matters with governmental bodies.
• Benefit from the incubator’s relationships and collaborations with various parties related to the enrolled project, both inside and outside the Sultanate.
• Marketing support through assistance in participating in local and international exhibitions and promoting products through partnerships with the incubator.

1. Project “Trade Logic (ERP System)” by student Ahmed Al Amri from the College of Commerce and Administrative Sciences at Dhofar University:
   The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system at Trade Logic aims to help small and medium enterprises manage their business transactions, issue invoices, manage inventory levels, and manage sales more accurately while utilizing artificial intelligence features. The idea was evaluated by the scientific incubator committee and decided to incubate this idea as a project.
2. Project “Iktifa” by student Iman Salem Mahd Al Maashani from the College of Commerce and Administrative Sciences at Dhofar University:
   This is an electronic platform aimed at raising awareness of Omani products and their positive impact on the Omani economy. The platform aims to support various segments of society, such as small and medium economies, the service sector, and the industrial sector. The idea was evaluated by the scientific incubator committee and decided to incubate this idea as a project.
3. Project “Innovation of Bioplastic” presented by a team of students from the College of Engineering at Dhofar University: Mona Ahmed Habes, Mazouna Ali Belhaf, Rawan Mohammed Ghwas, Shaimaa Hamid Al Amiri, Wafa Ahmed Jaboub, Taif Baouzir, Naima Mohammed Baouzir, and Kholoud Mubarak Al Saidi:
   The idea of innovating bioplastic is primarily based on using local materials such as algae and plant waste to create a safer and more sustainable environment. This is achieved by transforming the aforementioned waste materials into bioplastic materials. One of the main advantages of this bioplastic is that it is 100% environmentally friendly; the second advantage is that it decomposes faster and more safely by natural organisms; and the third advantage is that it is antimicrobial. The idea was evaluated by the scientific incubator committee and decided to incubate this idea as a project.