Transforming research ideas into successful businesses through mentorship, resources, and innovation-driven support.
Research to Business – Incubator Programs
Research to Business
Al-Quds Center for Innovation Technology and Entrepreneurship (B-CITE) aims to position itself as an excellent option to provide support and guidance to the entrepreneurs of the Jerusalem community, particularly to Al-Quds University graduates. B-CITE also aims to stand out as a leader in the business entrepreneurship environment at the international level.
B-CITE at Al-Quds University strives continuously to be recognized as an innovative business incubator and entrepreneurial academy by providing our participants with a high level of assistance that exceeds their highest expectations. Our team and partnering organizations will come to represent the ideal business partner for entrepreneurs who wish to start and grow their new startup.
Entrepreneurship - Incubator Programs
Empowering entrepreneurs to grow their ideas into impactful, sustainable businesses.
Entrepreneurship
The Al-Quds University B-CITE is fostering the start-up training program to aid in the development of future entrepreneurs. This program was built off of the realization that students aren’t just becoming future employees, but are building their own businesses, and thus aids students in their entrepreneurial ideas by teaching or coaching them through educational programs, seminars, workshops, etc.
22 Training Modules:
This 20-hour course explains how to generate business ideas that are insightful and actionable, and understand business dynamics as they relate to idea generation. In addition, it provides how to objectively assess skills, passions, hobbies, & interests. Also, to understand the difference between business types and which one to aim for. This course will teach the use of common techniques like problem identification to come up with ideas, and advanced techniques like disintermediation, local modifiers, and market enablers to construct ideas.
Is a 20-hour course that helps you identify major features of the organization, management functions, planning, organizing, leading, controlling, and decision-making.
A 20-hour course on how to develop the appropriate product design for your start-up? Product is vital to new ventures. It can either set startups to instant success or drive them out of business. Extra caution should be taken when designing and developing a new venture’s product. Innovation is key to good product design and development, but it entails high degree of risk.
Is a 20-hour course that gives an overview of communication skills; written, oral, and non-verbal techniques and different types of business and social communications? These are important for solving problems in an efficient, tact, smart, and diplomatic way through appropriate communication.
Is a 20-hour course that will introduce the negotiation techniques behind the entrepreneurial community’s success. This course will help to protect or increase the value of ideas and product. Thus, it will deal with the ego and the need to build trust in relationships, and navigate the bargaining process when economic uncertainty and technical sophistication are at stake.
This course teaches how to acquire the skills necessary to get up and running as a salesperson. In addition, it helps to how to apply the fundamentals concepts about marketing and sales, and to develop into an advanced salesperson. This course consists of 20 contact hours.
Is a 20-hour course that shows an overview on strategies used in implementing social media marketing and integration of different social media technologies into a marketing plan. Thus, it creates social media marketing campaigns, and applying appropriate social media tools. It also gives an overview about competitive analysis, market segmentation, marketing and product development at companies.
Is a 20-hour course that helps applicants to master the essential disciplines in digital marketing, that including search engine optimization (SEO), social media, pay-per-click (PPC), conversion optimization, web analytics, content marketing, and email and mobile marketing.
Is a 20-hour course that helps you develop creativity and innovative skills, which are the key elements of entrepreneurship. It teaches you the importance of examining the habits and actions of innovative thinkers and the work of successful entrepreneurs through inquiry, observation, experimentation, and other creative processes.
This is an introduction to concepts of entrepreneurship, and launching new ventures. This includes key issues in entrepreneurship and the process of launching and growing entrepreneurial ventures. It also gives an overview of creating a minimum viable product, how to do market testing, building a basic business model, developing and executing a launch plan. This course consists of 20 contact hours
Is a 40-hour course that gives an overview of topics from the perspective of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, private equity professionals and limited partner investors. This course discusses various ways to raise venture capital financing and common mistakes new ventures make. In addition, this course provide overview of investment readiness for entrepreneurship through making the proper preparations to receive funding from investors, angels, or VCs.
Is an introduction to the world of electronic commerce, including an overview of the basic logic of doing business online, and the status of e-commerce. It describes the history and status of e-commerce. This course consists of 20 contact hours.
Is a 20-hour course on developing web-based applications to help online businesses in their core processes such as sales, payment processing, promotions, procurement, etc. It will also introduce programming techniques to developing mobile applications. This will help in reaching customers through mobile applications.
Is a 20-hour course on fundamental concept in transformative and disruptive innovations from crypto-currencies to cyber-security, known as Block chain. This is an introductory course on the technology behind block-chain, and the multiple opportunities for its application in the business world. Besides, it educate ways that small business can take advantage of it.
Is a 20-hour introduction course on the basics of analytics, different types of analytics and concepts that include segmentation and benchmarking.
Is a 20-hour course that will introduce the negotiation techniques behind the entrepreneurial community’s success. This course will help to protect or increase the value of ideas and product. Thus, it will deal with the ego and the need to build trust in relationships, and navigate the bargaining process when economic uncertainty and technical sophistication are at stake.
Is a 20-hour course that will this course will provide the necessary knowledge to protect and capitalize on intellectual property (IP) for patent, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets.
This course gives breakthrough insights that empower to act in a competitive environment. Meaning while, it will provide a full and clear run through of business intelligence and knowledge management system that enable modern professionals to capture, handle, and distribute large amounts of information throughout company. This course allows working to the highest efficiency and quality, and brings business and career to the next level; it consists of 20 contact hours.
This course helps in implementing new systems to make business operations more efficient and reliable, finding new marketing and distribution channels to boost sales and exploiting all of the growth opportunities within the business. This training course develops a Scale Up plan for businesses, and increases knowledge of the challenges they can expect to face at the transition process. This course consists of 20 contact hours.
Is a 20-hour course that helps to take the strategic decision though the applications of statistics to everyday life, and methods for acquiring data through observation and experimentation. In addition, it introduces anticipating patterns using basic probability and sampling, statistical inference through estimation and hypothesis testing to organize and describe quantitative and categorical forms of data.
This course will provide the knowledge to understand Lean Startup principles and apply them in an organization. In addition to learning how Lean Startup differs from traditional approaches, participants will gain an understanding of the principled centered concepts and the terminology behind the framework. This course consists of 20 contact hours.
This course will explain process that reduces the risks of bringing a new product, feature or service to the market. It will also help gather feedback from customers on new solutions, before the product is built. The method also demonstrates to stir up creativity in a team and helps to make critical decisions, faster. This course consists of 20 contact hours.
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises - Incubator Programs
Supporting SMEs with resources, mentorship, and innovation pathways to scale and thrive.
SMEs (Small and Medium Sized Enterprises)
The first program in Jerusalem, the center launched the SMEs incubation program. The SMEs incubation program is an excellent tool for the development of the skills needed to run a successful SME in the region, and they will help our nation prosper and grow independently. The SMEs Training Program will play an integral part in help our nation prosper and grow independently.
23 Training Modules:
This will provide the student with everything that is needed to build a successful online business, which includes how to define an online business, identify opportunities for an online business, and find resources to support your business.
This involves in getting started on the road to creating a perfect brand. This includes what a brand is and what branding is about. Thus, it defines various types of brand architecture, brand extension, and identify your brand’s products, its features, and their values.
This provides the basics of internet marketing. These objectives learn how to apply techniques to influence and engage your target market, and to weigh the value of using a distribution service for e-mail marketing campaigns.
This will help you build or improve a brand using social media. These objectives include how to learn how to define terms related to social media branding, and to create a strategy for your social media brand.
This teaches how to make budgets and make decisions with confidence. These objectives include being able to define basic financial terminology, prepare a budget of any type or size, and get your budget approved, performing basic ratio analysis, and making better financial decisions.
This will help you to learn how strategic friendships can make or break your business. These objectives include how to discover the benefits of developing a support network of connections, and to understand how building relationships can help you develop your business base.
We help small business owners strengthen their communication skills, from branding and customer engagement to digital marketing. Our programs provide practical tools to connect with audiences and grow with confidence.
Provides the skills, and to turn difficult situations into opportunities for growth. These objectives include how to recognize how participants own attitudes and actions influences others, and to find new and effective techniques for dealing with difficult people.
Developing leaders who inspire through dialogue, active listening, and meaningful connection to drive collaboration and change.
Is the ideal next step along the path of learning and creating a workplace culture committed to continuous improvement. These objectives include how to describe what continuous improvement with lean is all about, and to explain the concepts of the continuous improvement cycle.
Helps you to ensure that your organization is ready to manage any kind of crisis. These objectives include how to learn how to assign people to an appropriate crisis team role, to conduct a crisis audit, and to establish the means for business continuity.
This will teach entrepreneurs how to develop, market, and manage an e-commerce business, giving them a crucial advantage in today’s competitive market. These objectives include how to describe what the terms e-commerce and m-commerce mean, and to develop an e-commerce business plan.
To describe what workplace violence is, to identify some warning signs of violence, to apply the cycle of anger, to understand Albert Bandura’s behavior wheel and how it applies to anger, to develop a seven-step process for managing your anger and others’ anger.
This course brings you the basics you need to make a decision about the need for CRM, its benefits, and how to coordinate the base requirements for a CRM undertaking.
This course will discuss all aspects of inventory management, including common terms, the inventory cycle, how to maintain inventory accuracy, and what some of the latest trends are.
This course will introduce you to the basic concepts of supply chain management, including the basic flow, core models, supply chain drivers, key metrics, benchmarking techniques, and ideas for taking your supply chain to the next level.
This course explores some of the major social media sites and look at how specialty sites and social media management tools can take their social media marketing to the next level.
In this course, participants will learn the basics of procurement, including what a supply chain looks like, the purchasing cycle, essential tools and strategies for making the best purchasing relationships work, managing bids, and more.
This course helps in implementing new systems to make business operations more efficient and reliable, finding new marketing and distribution channels to boost sales and exploiting all of the growth opportunities within the business. This training course develops a Scale Up plan for businesses, and increases knowledge of the challenges they can expect to face at the transition process. This course consists of 20 contact hours.
Is a 20-hour course that helps to take the strategic decision though the applications of statistics to everyday life, and methods for acquiring data through observation and experimentation. In addition, it introduces anticipating patterns using basic probability and sampling, statistical inference through estimation and hypothesis testing to organize and describe quantitative and categorical forms of data.
This course will provide the knowledge to understand Lean Startup principles and apply them in an organization. In addition to learning how Lean Startup differs from traditional approaches, participants will gain an understanding of the principled centered concepts and the terminology behind the framework. This course consists of 20 contact hours.
This course will explain process that reduces the risks of bringing a new product, feature or service to the market. It will also help gather feedback from customers on new solutions, before the product is built. The method also demonstrates to stir up creativity in a team and helps to make critical decisions, faster. This course consists of 20 contact hours.