TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY POLICY (TTP) AND INNOVATION
University of Aleppo
Aleppo University has taken an initiative to improve the relationships between the
university staff and the professionals (companies, establishments and others) and to enhance
entrepreneurship at the graduate's level and to facilitate the transfer of technology and
innovation into products and services. Many initiatives are encouraged and adopted.
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Several professors have very significant relationships through professional activities
system at the university, which represent a kind of experiment and technology transfer
to the industrial sector.
Creation of the master courses which directly serves the vocational sector (ex. Food
Quality and Food Safety; Biomedical Engineering; etc.). These master students select
their research subjects according to their specialty and related to real problems.
Creation of an important incubator (9000 m2) in the industrial city, this incubator was
launched by the university in 2008, at Al Shikh-Najjar district (20 km from Aleppo),
to facilitate the transformation of innovate ideas into start up mainly using advanced
technology.
i. Faculty of Agriculture
1. The Faculty of Agriculture took the initiative to create a Center for Technology
Transfer and Continuous Training (CTTCT) in cooperation with chambers of industry,
Agricultural and commercial in order to disclosure of inventions: (a) record keeping
and management; (b) evaluation and marketing; (c) patent prosecution; (d) negotiation
and drafting of license agreements; (e) management of active licenses. Another role of
this center is to find companies which have the capability, interest and resources to
develop embryonic technologies into useful products. In addition, the technology
transfer center has the important task of insuring the missions of the Universityeducation, research and service.
2. Long-term courses and specialized short courses in cooperation with some international
research centers such as ICARDA and FAO and ACSSAD ...etc. For exchange and
acquiring a new technologies: DNA Molecular Marker Techniques for Crop
Improvement, Management of Water Resources and Improvement of Water-Use
Efficiency in the Dry Areas, IPM…etc.
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Pharmaceutical Industries
Staff members and M.Sc, Ph.D students from faculty of pharmacy and faculty of sciences
department of chemistry collaborate with pharmaceutical companies especially in the
following fields:
1. Formulation development ; Cooperation with industrial sectors has been done in order
to bring new commercial pharmaceutical formulations that are characterized by
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improve handling, stability and bioavailability, also faster onset of effect, longer
period of effectiveness and better compatibility.
2. Analytical methods development and validation; Analytical methods for some
pharmaceuticals are not exist in the available references so that test procedures are
developed and validate by using advanced technologies to ensure that the
manufactured products are thoroughly characterized. Final-product testing provides
further assurance that the products are consistently safe, efficacious, and in
compliance with their specification.
iii. Textile dyeing industries
Researches were performed, in department of chemistry-faculty of sciences-Aleppo
University, for treatment of the textile dyeing industrial wastewater.
Textile dyeing factories are widely spread in Aleppo; these factories use large quantities
of water in the production process, and discharge the resulted wastewater in the environment.
This leads to consume large quantities of water and pollute the underground water. Therefore,
wells in many industrial areas in Aleppo dried. These factories started to buy water from other
areas in Aleppo.
The treatment of this wastewater was studied in Aleppo University. Many samples were
collected from many factories for analysis to characterize the wastewater. Then many
methods of treatment were applied to determine the most suitable one.
A lot of treatment plants were constructed in many factories. The treated wastewater was
fitted with Syrian regulations for discharging it in the environment.
Now, researches are being performed in Aleppo University for reusing the treated water in the
factory.
iv. TT & innovation encouragement experiences in faculty of dentistry –University of
Aleppo
1. Education & Treatment: Faculty of dentistry at university of Aleppo has a double
mission: basic education and specific training in dentistry and dental treatment center
for public.
2. Continuing training & Technology transfer: In the last years, the dental sciences have
a huge technological progress (Dental Implants, Laser in Dentistry, CAD-CAM,
Ozone in dentistry, Digital Radiography... etc.). A big gap was founded between GP
dentist knowledge and the new technology in dentistry. Faculty of dentistry of Aleppo
had a very successful experience in continuing education and new technology transfer
to the GP dentists. A lot of short or long training courses in the different specialties in
dentistry had been performed. This experience still running and we are planning to
develop it.
3. Innovations: The most innovations in dentistry were performed by big industrial
companies in cooperation with international academic centers for researches. The
majority of researches in our faculty are epidemiological studies or clinical trials. We
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can talk about some limited experiences in innovations in dentistry. They are very rare
and individual experiences.
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Technology Works Incubator of Aleppo University at Al-Shikh Najjar Industrial
City
In accordance with the general targets of the university to maintain at high level of
reaction between different university fields and the society establishments i.e. economic,
services, and investment. The Aleppo University constructed the technology incubator and the
attaché office in Al-Shikh Najjar industrial city in Aleppo for the following benefits:
1. Training students by performing experiments on the real field.
2. Identify the engineering and industrial problems, which hinder the economical
activities in the industrial city.
3. Contribute in different scientific researches to develop sciences and technology.
4. Offering the experiences and consultants to perform the industrial activities and find
suitable solutions for different issues, which hinder the progress of economy, industry
and service.
5. Training courses continuously in advanced technologies to re-qualify the human
resources (engineers, technicians, and managers).
The role of the technology incubator is based on carrying out projects of researches,
production and services, or inventing technology through enforcing the relationship between
the university and the industrial sectors.
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Practical example (1):
Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering established, via a multilateral cooperation
project financed by the academic agency of the French speaking countries (2005-2006), an
operational research network between three research teams: the Tunisian team (El-Manar
University, the French team (Cergy-Pontoise University) and the Syrian team (Aleppo
University).
This network permitted:
1. The insertion of the Aleppo University in the international research,
2. The creation of south-south ties,
3. The realization, in Electrical Drives Laboratory at Aleppo University, of an FPGAbased prototyping platform dedicated for Electrical drives system algorithms.
4. The formation (training) of young researchers in the domain of Electrical drive
systems, then the transfer of the technologies acquired toward the local industrial
world.
Another transfer technology took place between the Wuppertal University and Aleppo
University via the master project entitled ‘Design of Pentium System for Electrical Drive
Algorithms Implementation Using Real-Time LINUX, this master project sustained in 2008.
The aim of the master project was the design of a rapid prototype system with small size, low
cost and high efficiency. It depends basically on the personal computer (PC) processor
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without the need for any external processor (e.g. digital signal processor (DSP)) to get fast
execution of control algorithms, and to support floating point operations.
The developed PC-based rapid-prototyping system is dedicated for laboratory purposes and
consists of an extension kit with all required interface boards to do the simulation and
implementation of electrical drive algorithms. Almost all designed boards are based on
programmable-logic devices (PLD) to reduce cost and size.
To operate the hardware of the proposed system a free available open source real-time
operating system (RTOS) kernel under Linux is used.
A PC-based rapid-prototyping system has been developed in the Electrical Drives laboratory
at Aleppo University, by help of Mr. Ralph Kennel professor in Electrical Machines and
Drives laboratory at Wuppertal University (Germany).
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Practical example (2)
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering perform several activities in cooperation with
industrial sector and technology transfer, examples of such effort are:
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A workshop with Vaxio University – Sweden in Maintenance and quality assurance.
A workshop in How to be Competitive through Procurement, cooperation with the
Syrian –European Business center.
A workshop Developing Education and Mutual Research at University for better
Industrial Linking, with Dresden University.
Several lectures to transfer Technology in cooperation with chamber of industry and
JAICA, to connect the university with the industrial sector.
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