Minister of commerce, ambassador and other VIPs on campus to discuss entrepreneurship, circular economies and trade innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A delegation of officials from the Sultanate of Oman visited Arizona State University this week for the 2018 SQCC ASU Omani Conference: Promoting Economic Development via Entrepreneurship and Innovation, an event organized by the Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center, the education arm of the Omani embassy in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Along with ASU officials and local business leaders, they discussed entrepreneurship, trade policies, circular economies and innovation in the global marketplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arizona and Oman are both desert regions that are reworking their economies to move from the past to the future, according to the chief innovation officer at Arizona State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe share weather and land, but most importantly, we share the aspiration to be better than ourselves,\u201d said Sethuraman Panchanathan, the executive vice president of knowledge development at ASU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He spoke at a conference called \u201cPromoting Economic Development via Entrepreneurship and Innovation.” Several Omani economic-development officials spent three days visiting the Valley as part of the conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ASU was named the most innovative university in the nation for the fourth year in a row not because of one thing it does, but because it has an innovative mindset, Panchanathan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDisruption through innovation is a methodology we constantly pursue,\u201d he said, which makes ASU a vital partner in boosting the state\u2019s economy by moving away from industries like mining and construction and toward technology and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n