Monshaat partners with US university to help Saudi SMEs

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s General Authority for Small and Medium Enterprises (Monshaat) has teamed up with Stanford University in California to launch a program aimed at helping small companies in the Kingdom scale up their operations.

The Monshaat Academy Programme for Innovation and Entrepreneurship was launched on Monday in cooperation with the Stanford Center for Professional Development and the King Salman Institute for Studies and Consulting Services, with participants from 50 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) taking part.