Dr. Muddesar Iqbal - UK

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The talk will present a three-phased Global Entrepreneurial Knowledge Exchange framework called "Explore, Partner and Grow". The framework is helping To Connect the Diversified Intellectual Capital of the World for Global Prosperity. It has created opportunities for academic collaborations and industrial partnerships to synergise industry-academia efforts for achieving the United Nation's sustainable development goals,  to transform our world. It has helped several universities to explore opportunities to partner with industry and business to push technologies outside the lab and into the market. The proposed framework also helps the academics to make their teaching, R&D and enterprise activities work hand in hand to create digital solutions. It aims to develop Skill-based Transdisciplinary Global Partnerships among Academia and industry to support disruptive Digital Startup Ideas. To implement this three-phased Global Entrepreneurial Knowledge Exchange framework, The speaker, Dr. Muddesar Iqbal, has founded a not-for-profit called Global Associate for Academic Supervision UK, which provides a both focus and infrastructure platforms to incubate, accelerate and build transdisciplinary skill-based global partnership ventures among industry, academics, young students. It creates disruptive digital business ventures against shared equity. During the talk, Dr. iqbal will present some findings, demonstrating the contributions made through the framework in improving classroom teaching, learning, and assessments. This has helped to transfer industry 4.0 employability skills in students as learning outcomes.