"The sustainable use of aquatic and marine spaces including oceans, seas, coasts, lakes, rivers and underground water. It encompasses a range of productive sectors, including fisheries, aquaculture, tourism, transport, shipbuilding, energy, bio prospecting and under water mining and related activities" – Vision 2030 Third Medium Term Plan 2018-2022

"It is a process that starts with the people you’re designing for and ends with new solutions that are tailor-made to suit their needs. It is all about building a deep empathy with the people you’re designing for; generating tons of ideas; building a bunch of prototypes; sharing what you’ve made with the people you’re designing for; and eventually putting your innovative new solution out in the world." – IDEO.org

"A concept that emerged in 1990s by Etzkowitz and Leydesdorff, interpreting the shift towards a growing overlapped relationship between the spheres of University-Industry-Government in the context of the knowledge society… It underlies that innovation and economic development depend on a more important role for the university and in the hybridisation of actors from university, industry and government to generate new institutional architectures for the generation, exchange and application of knowledge" – Triple Helix Research Group