Connect with Khalifa University's research, technologies, and expertise through structured partnerships designed to solve real-world challenges and turn innovation into commercial impact.
Why Partner with Khalifa University
KUEC connects industry partners with Khalifa University's research expertise, technologies, technical capabilities, and commercialization pathways through a single partnership route.
Khalifa University is ranked 177th in the QS World University Rankings 2026 and has been the UAE's top-ranked university for eight consecutive years, with strengths in energy, AI, advanced materials, and engineering.
KUEC is Khalifa University's commercialization arm and a single point of contact for licensing, research, laboratory services, venture creation, and strategic partnerships.
Technology readiness programs help advance university innovations from early prototypes toward real-world demonstration and market readiness.
Engage with Khalifa University's specialised research and technical capabilities through structured services delivered by KU teams.
With an AED 100 million endowment and global partners including BlackRock, KUEC is positioned to support long-term innovation and commercialization.
KUEC focuses on strategic areas including energy transition, health, advanced manufacturing, AI, and robotics, aligned with UAE priorities.
Six Ways to Partner with Khalifa University
KUEC provides structured partnership pathways for organizations looking to commercialize technology, address technical challenges, develop new ventures, or build long-term innovation collaborations.
Start a Partnership Conversation
Bring a Khalifa University invention to market through licensing arrangements covering defined fields of use, territories, commercial terms, and royalties.
Fund a defined research project at Khalifa University to address a specific technical challenge through clear objectives, deliverables, and timelines.
Engage KU technical teams for specialised research, testing, characterization, prototyping, and other project-based technical services.
Develop a multi-year innovation partnership built around your strategic technology priorities and supported by Khalifa University researchers.
Explore spin-off opportunities that bring together researchers, intellectual property, and investors to structure and launch new technology ventures.
Build long-term, multidisciplinary collaborations combining research, technology commercialization, technical expertise, and advisory capabilities around shared priorities.
Tell us about your technology need and KUEC's partnerships team will connect you to the right researchers, technologies, and infrastructure at Khalifa University.
Start a partnership
Companies, investors, government entities, and entrepreneurs — from startups to multinationals, in the UAE and internationally.
Contact KUEC's commercialization team to discuss the technology and your commercial goals. We structure a licence with defined fields of use, territory, fees, and royalties.
Sponsored research funds a defined project over a fixed term. An Enterprise Lab is a multi-year partnership with researchers embedded alongside your team to pursue a broader agenda.
Terms are agreed per partnership. Background IP stays with its owner; rights to results and any new IP are defined upfront to suit both parties.
Yes. KUEC works with international partners and can license technologies across defined global territories.
No. Laboratory, testing, and prototyping services are available on a standalone, pay-as-you-use basis.
Through KUEC, industry can access capabilities rarely available commercially in the region — including cleanroom and semiconductor/MEMS microfabrication (atomic-layer deposition, thin-film deposition, photolithography), metal and ceramic 3D printing with CNC machining and post-processing, battery cycle-life and pack testing, and certification-grade materials characterisation and failure analysis (micro-CT and CT scanning, SEM/FIB electron microscopy, XRD, XPS, NMR, ICP-MS).
It depends on scope, but our dedicated team and flexible agreement templates are built to move quickly from first conversation to signature.
Energy, advanced manufacturing, health, artificial intelligence, robotics, advanced materials, and aerospace, among others.
Explore our technology catalogue or contact the commercialization team for opportunities matched to your sector.
Tell us your challenge using the contact form, and our partnerships team will guide you to the right model.