The Jordan’s digital economy action plan aims to ease the creation of new businesses and create more supportive environments for entrepreneurs to thrive and grow. However, the National Innovation Strategy (2013 – 2017), developed by the Higher Council of Science and Technology (HCST) in Jordan, discussed the weaknesses of the national innovation systems in Jordan which includes legislative, legal, human, and institutional factors such as the absence of proper structures of transfer and distribution of innovation as well as the weak relationship between universities and industrial companies. Universities play a very important role in that context. They should be empowered to contribute to equip students and faculty members with entrepreneurial capabilities to support innovation and facilitate connections between academia and industry. BITTCOIN-JO will build on the previous EU supported projects in Jordan such as TEJ and STRD II. It will focus on creating the infrastructure needed to create self-sustainable Technology Transfer offices according to a new model that not only focuses on the practical steps to create and run those offices but also on providing legal, licensing, business and innovation training courses to university scientists, university administrative staff, students, and industry stakeholders. The previous projects focused on stimulating the development of university-enterprise cooperation, but they ignored the process of Technology Transfer when running those offices, which requires detailed practical knowledge about research commercialisation, startups, spinoffs, and patents. BITTCOIN-JO will provide detailed steps for establishing new TTO according to a metric-oriented model, and modernization of the existing TTOs in the higher education institutions in Jordan, which in turn provide better career options. The project aims at building capacities to create TTOs in Jordan. The offices will be established at YU, and HTU and modernised at UOP and GJU.

INVENT project responds to one of Jordan’s priorities in promoting innovation and R&D to boost economy. It responds to the need for a professional profile able to work with an interdisciplinary approach that integrates knowledge and expertise in R&D on one hand, and in innovation-driven business on the other hand. The basic results of the project activities are the establishment of Centers for transfer of innovations (CTI) at the Jordanian universities and in non academic institutions. Their activity is provision of entrepreneurs with innovations for introduction into process of production. The target groups to which actions will be addressed are: staff and trainers of CTI, researchers and post graduate students; and technicians from industry who will benefit from innovation training, technology agreements with R&D centres for joint projects. The project will achieve the end users through tailored channels: young researchers by circulating information in the universities; business men and professionals, providing them with opportunities for access to the research facilities; scientists, bridging the scientific production with the business sector, and policy makers being informed through press releases and dissemination seminars. Final beneficiaries from the project activities will be:- the research centres attracting more investments in technology transfer and getting advantages from transnational networking,-the business communities, SMEs territorial districts and sectoral clusters, who will get the results of an increased flow of knowledge from labs to industry- young people leaving the higher education system, increasing their employment opportunities through business creation and modernization of existing companies.The team of facilitators, trained through the project, will assist the technology transfer process from then onwards and establish a long lasting network of cooperation among the labs and institutions involved.