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How Syria nurtures Innovation

Zeky Al Drobe writing SciDev:

Syrian academics are hailing a scheme to nurture inventors a success following a string of patent applications and international prizes for their students' work.The Science of Invention and Development (SID) Team in Syrian Universities has been running for more than a decade and aims to train Master's students and graduates on how to be inventors in their chosen fields...Osama Alchiekh, one of the team's main trainers, said that the 2010 course was the eighth since the initiative began in 1997. He said that SID is a mentoring programme rather than just a training course. "The trainers work hand-in-hand with the trainees to develop their inventions, as we are all science researchers."Fikrat Almahdi, manager of the invention office in Albaath University, said the SID team focuses on breaking the students' stereotypical thinking, which builds up from accumulating information but not using it...[continue reading]

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