The Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park launched the online accelerator program Sharjah Advanced Industry Accelerator focusing on advanced industries. The Sharjah Advanced Industry Accelerator is a 100% digital initiative for entrepreneurs and start-ups worldwide interested to tap into the UAE & MENA Region, that offers them to bring to the market their innovative projects, through a company incubation, mentoring and market access via the SRTI Park Ecosystem.

The SRTI Park aims to provide an environment that foster creativity and innovation by creating an attractive and sustainable park with world-class infrastructure and services, supporting, promoting and developing the innovation system and to enhance the Emirate’s status as a global destination in the fields of innovation.

Focus Areas

Focus areas of the accelerator:

• Smart Construction Management: Solutions equipped with Big Data/AI technology that stores a vast amount of business & construction data to help automate operational & construction processes.
• Smart Materials: Materials designed to have controllable and adjustable properties depending on external stimuli such as stress, moisture, electric or magnetic fields, light, temperature, pH, or chemical compounds.
• Sustainable Design: Solutions that allow sustainable architectural designs seeking to optimize natural resources and processes in buildings (selection of materials, proper use of space, ideal selection of the places…) to reduce the environmental damage.
• Green Building: Green building (also known as green construction or sustainable building) refers to both an approach and the application of processes towards a building’s life-cycle environmentally responsible and resource-efficient.
• Building Information Modelling: Tools involving the generation and management of digital representations of physical and functional characteristics of places to save time and detect potential issues before they cause a problem.
• Additive Manufacturing: Reducing costs and time and increasing flexibility through solutions based on 3D printing technologies to create highly detailed models and print life-size objects or parts of them that are difficult to produce.
• Connected Infrastructures & Ecosystems: Solutions based on technologies to catch signals of an upcoming threat of an infrastructure. The organizers are also looking for cross-sector solutions to improve connection and cooperation along the construction value chain.
• Modularization / Prefabrication: Solutions based on a modular building to increase productivity, simplify logistics, minimize risks, help to decrease material waste, and create less impact to the surrounding environment.

Benefits

A personalized service will be provided that maximizes the positive impact on entrepreneurs and start-ups, designing ad-hoc itineraries for each type of participant.

• Workspace and incubation in the SRTI Park.
• Mentoring about innovation methodologies, business strategy and investment.
• Specialized advisory through the specific experts’ knowledge in the 4.0 Industry topic.
• Alumni Program for graduates.
• Active networking thanks to the network of entrepreneurs, companies, experts and existing entities in the ecosystem of SRTIP.
• Participation in events developed by the SRTIP.
• Sandbox: Possibility of testing solutions in real environment.
• Active participation in the final Demoday.
• Visibility in media and communication channels of SRTIP and sponsoring corporates.
• Possibility to promotion and access to national and international events through the presence of SRTIP in them. • Access to private and public projects for long term sustainability.

Requirements 

In order to be eligible for Sharjah Advanced Industry Accelerator, entrepreneurs and Start-ups that

• Are interested to set up and expand in the UAE/MENA Region.
• Has an MVP or solution tested in the market.
• Have a track record of generating revenue.
• Are innovative in nature and provide value-added solutions to the 4.0 Industry.
• Have the potential to scale and a vision to grow internationally.

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