Nile University was established 15 years ago as a research university. The concept of entrepreneurial university has been adopted by NU following its impactful involvement in several national initiatives aiming at raising awareness about entrepreneurship, fostering technology transfer across Egyptian universities, and supporting competitiveness of Egyptian industry. The entrepreneurial university concept has further been refined via the university’s homegrown research on creating a roadmap for transformation of Egyptian universities to become entrepreneurial.
Nile University hosts one of the biggest entrepreneurship centers in Egypt (most recently re-branded as EPIC – Entrepreneurship, Professional Services and Innovation Center), both in terms of space and of human resources. The infrastructure includes pre-incubator, 4 incubators (covering SaaS, deep-tech, Engineering and creative industries), an accelerator, co-working spaces, a design house, an innovation hub (maker space) in addition to the “micro factory,” a maker space to support production of the first batch. EPIC runs one of the biggest entrepreneurship initiatives in the country, NilePreneurs.
The services provided encompass: entrepreneurship training, mentorship, prototype development support, and seed funding. NU is also connected to investors in the ecosystem, offering investment readiness bootcamps. During the past 5 years, NU has supported more than 270 startup teams, and has provided the legal support for company registration to more than 150 companies. Finally, with respect to industry orientation, NU has carried out 170 product development projects covering new product development, reverse engineer, prototyping and design for manufacturability. It was also served more than 700 Small and Medium Enterprises in engineering, plastics, chemicals and furniture sectors.

Heba Labib
Director
EPIC, NilePreneurs,  Nile University



Ahmed Saleh
Head of Strategy and Innovation
EPIC, NilePreneurs,  Nile University



Mohamed Abbas
Head of Entrepreneurship
EPIC, NilePreneurs,  Nile University



Asmaa Ahmed
Head of Project Management
EPIC, NilePreneurs,  Nile University



Dr. Tarek Khalil
Founding President and Dean
School of Management of Technology,  Nile University



Dr. Wael Akl
President
Nile University

Nile University would like to acknowledge the entities that have supported its entrepreneurial journey. The Central Bank of Egypt had been instrumental as a strategic co-founder in NilePreneurs initiative. Also, the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology and Ministry of Planning have strongly contributed to NU’s Entrepreneurial Activities. In addition, the EU through Erasmus+ capacity building program has supported knowledge and resources, while the US-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) has paved the way for NU to establish its entrepreneurship activities. Not to forget, the Baking sector in Egypt through Banque Misr, QNB, E-Bank, SCB, HDB, IDB, UB, BDC and HSBC.

Furthermore, we would like to extend our thank our different partners for success: from UN organizations - ILO, UNDP, ITU; the various export councils: Engineering, Chemicals, Furniture, Printing and Packaging; partner universities Egypt: Ain Shams, Cairo, Fayoum, Arab Academy for Science and Technology, Azhar; as well as in Europe: University of Turku, Finland, Frei Universitat Berlin, Germany, University of Oviedo, Spain, and many more.