KUWAIT: Kuwait University has awarded Dr Nawaf Al-Abduljader from the Department of Management and Marketing at the College of Administrative Sciences the Best Young Researcher Award in the field of Arts and Humanities for the academic year 2024/2023. One of the research papers that Dr Al-Abduljader has submitted to the award was in the field of entrepreneurship and small business management, where he explored the reasons why students in Kuwait choose to start a business in comparison to those in the US.

He also investigated ways to encourage students to become entrepreneurs. Abduljader said he published four research papers in the field. Kuwait University’s research department offers awards annually to the best young researcher to recognize exceptional research efforts of faculty members with the rank of assistant professor. The awards are equally distributed in the fields of applied sciences, arts and humanities. The winners are selected through a unified process of evaluating the achievements of researchers, with quality as the only criterion for selecting the award winners.