KAUST President to Asharq Al-Awsat: We Are Extracting Lithium from Sea Water to Make Batteries

Saudi KAUST University uses saline water to grow crops through the Red Sea Farms project. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Professor Tony Chan, President of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), revealed tangible success in transforming research and studies conducted at the university into real-world inventions.

This led to the inclusion of KAUST on the list of research universities that were able to export technology outside its geographical borders, he underlined.