Established with National Authority

The NCTC is not just another program. It is a national institution, established in partnership with the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT) and operating under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MoHESR). This places the center at the strategic heart of Egypt’s innovation policy, giving it the mandate to oversee, reform, and unify the work of all Offices of Technology Commercialization (OTCs) across universities and research institutes in the country.

This national oversight is unprecedented. For the first time, Egypt has a centralized commercialization authority, capable of setting standards, aligning strategies, and ensuring that the outputs of Egypt’s research ecosystem don’t remain trapped in labs, but are filtered, protected, and launched into markets.

Why This Mandate Matters

By giving the NCTC jurisdiction over every OTC in the country, the government has created theleverage point the ecosystem has been waiting for. The center’s role is:

• Standardization: Introducing consistent IP policies, licensing frameworks, and commercialization playbooks across all institutes.

• Efficiency: Preventing duplication of effort and streamlining how ideas are sourced, vetted, and matured.

• Scale: Building pipelines of innovations ready for local and global markets, not just one-off successes.

• Impact: Turning research outputs into businesses, jobs, and industries that directly contribute to Egypt’s knowledge economy.

This mandate transforms technology transfer from an isolated academic activity into a national economic strategy.

Progressio’s Role: Commissioned to Build the Engine

The responsibility of building and running this national engine has been entrusted to Progressio. Commissioned by the government, Progressio is leading the work of designing, managing, and operating the core functions of technology commercialization across Egypt.

This includes:

• Developing the digital platform that underpins the center’s operations.

• Establishing the National IP Policy Frameworks to be applied across research institutes nation wide.

• Designing and implementing the commercialization workflow: IP assessment, prototyping, industry scoring, and matchmaking.

• Training OTC staff nationwide to adopt best practices and international standards.

• Coordinating with private sector partners, investors, and industry bodies to bring inventions to market.

In short, Progressio is not simply a service provider, it is the architect and operator of Egypt’s commercialization system.

A Strategic Position for the Future

The establishment of the NCTC is more than an administrative milestone. It is a strategic repositioning of Egypt’s research ecosystem. By centralizing commercialization under a national authority, Egypt is sending a clear message: innovation will no longer stop at publication or patents, it will end in the market.

For Progressio, this is both a profound responsibility and a powerful endorsement. To be commissioned to reform, build, and run the national commercialization engine is to be entrusted with shaping the future of how Egypt creates, protects, and monetizes knowledge.

The work is just beginning. But one thing is certain: with the NCTC in place, Egypt is no longer experimenting with commercialization, it is building an engine designed to power an entire innovation economy.