Under the presidency of HE KAU President Prof. ABdulrahman Al Youbi, KAU International Advisory Board held its 9th meeting on Saturday and Sunday 7 and 8 of October 2017. The meeting discussed the issue of Optimal Investment of KAU Capabilities in Innovation and Technology Localizing. A number of university officials attended the meeting. It is worth mentioning that the International Advisory Board has completed seven years since its establishment in 2011. Its membership includes some of the leading heads of prestigious international universities and managers of international companies with long-standing experience in education, industry and the labor market. The International Advisory Board was established in order to evaluate the university orientations by dignitaries having their weight in the world, whether from well-known industrial and academic institutions. It attracted a group of prominent academics and heads of universities and executive heads and senior officials of global industrial giants around the world.