Signing a protocol of cooperation between Assiut governate and Assiut University, General Gamal Nour El Din Mohamed Zaki, Governor of Assiut, emphasized that Assiut has vast areas as well as economic and industrial potentials that qualify it to be a distinct industrial area in Upper Egypt. The protocol aims to coordinate the joint cooperation between the two parties and the announcement of the integrated technology transfer unit as an industrial developer of the region. Concerning the details of the protocol, Dr. Wael Kheir Eldeen said that, in the next period, both the governorate and the university will deepen their cooperation in the field of developing the industrial zones, establishing and equipping the industrial complexes, marketing the industrial projects to the investors, taking the role of the industrial developer of the industrial zones in the governorate, and establishing plans of industrial complexes according to the natural resources of the governorate and surrounding areas, and the technology required to increase the added value of natural resources and products.