List of Arab entrepreneurship initiatives

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Arab entrepreneurship initiatives: this is an alphabetical list of major, active, multi-year initiatives taken to promote entrepreneurship in Arab-majority countries. It includes private-sector, government, NGO and INGO initiatives.

 Algeria[edit]

{These need review and redacting.}

 Bahrain[edit]

 Comoros[edit]

Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) initiative

 Djibouti[edit]

Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) initiative

 Egypt[edit]

 Iraq[edit]

 Jordan[edit]

 Kuwait[edit]

 Lebanon[edit]

  • TEC - Tripoli Entrepreneurs Club
  • Amideast, Cisco Entrepreneurship Institute
  • Association for the Development of Rural Capacities
  • Association Entraide Professionnelle
  • Al Majmoua (microfinance)
  • Al-Iktissad Wal-Aamal (magazine)
  • AltCity - creative startup community (coworking, cafe, startup programs)
  • Ameen (microfinance)
  • Cedars Consultants and Traders' Group
  • Center For Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the AUB American University of Beirut
  • Bader Lebanon
  • Berytech
  • BIAT Center (Business Incubation Association of Tripoli)
  • Center For Entrepreneurship @ Beirut Arab University
  • Dragons Den: Al Aareen, on Beirut's Future Television
  • Euro-Lebanese Centre For Industrial Modernsation
  • eClub (The Entrepreneurship club) www.oureclub.com
  • Georges N. Frem Foundation
  • Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) initiative
  • Ijma3
  • Imdad logistics a Middle East 4PL services provider (Logistics Management)
  • Kafalat: a 75% publicly owned financial company that assists SMEs to access commercial bank funding.
  • Partnership for Lebanon (Ghafari, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Occidental Petroleum)
  • Lira
  • MACLE
  • Makhzoumi Foundation
  • MOET (Ministry of Economy and Trade)
  • MIT Enterprise Forum of the Pan Arab Region (known for its annual MIT Arab Business Plan Competition)
  • OX Factory The Startup Factory
  • Philips Innovation Program (housed at Berytech)
  • Qualeb Programme
  • René Moawad Foundation
  • RootSpace
  • SME Unit (of the Ministry of Economy and Trade)
  • South BIC (Business Incubation Center, Saida)
  • Speed@BDD
  • WAY SAL - Cedars consultants and Traders'Group
  • Young Arab Women Entrepreneurs (YAWE)
  • YallaStartup

 Mauritania[edit]

Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) initiative

 Morocco[edit]

  • Al Akhawayan University
  • Amideast, Cisco Entrepreneurship Institute
  • AFEM, Moroccan Businesswomen's Association
  • ANPME - The National SME Association
  • ANPME - National SME Agency
  • Jamalullail Corporation Berhads
  • Biotech Maroc
  • CAC - Network of Business Advisory Bureaus
  • Casablanca Technopark
  • CMPP - Moroccan Centre for Clean Manufacturing
  • CREFACE - Network of Business Start-up Centres
  • Education for Employment Foundation (EFE-Maroc)
  • Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) initiative
  • Government Ministries {revise: only leave in if sub-links relate directly to entrepreneurship}
    • MCI - Ministry of Industry and Commerce
    • The Ministry for Privatisation
    • OMPIC - National Intellectual Property Bureau
  • Network Maroc Entrepreneurs
  • OFPPT - National Manpower and Professional Training Bureau
  • PTR - A National Technology Services Network
  • RMIE — Moroccan Incubator and Start-up network
  • R+D Maroc — The Moroccan RTD Association
  • Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship www.mcise.org
  • Enactus-Morocco
  • University incubators:
    • National University System
    • L’Université Mohammed Premier Oujda
    • CUDI — Incubator at Doukala University
    • CIE — Centre Incubator d’Entreprises
    • CIT — Centre d’Incubation Technologique at EMI Rabat
    • Incubator de l’ENIM
    • IT Incubateur at INPT-ENSIAS Rabat
    • Incubator ‘MA-IN’ at the Faculté des Sciences Semlalia Marrakech
    • Incubator at the Faculté des Sciences et Techniques Beni Mallal
    • Incubator at the Faculté des Sciences El Jadida
  • Maghreb Start-up Initiative

 Oman[edit]

  • Zubair Small Enterprises Centre (Zubair SEC) www.zubairsec.org (by The Zubair Corporation)
  • Amideast, Cisco Entrepreneurship Institute
  • Fund for the Development of Youth Projects:
    • Sharakah
  • Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) initiative
  • Shell Oil's Intilaaqah (social investment programme)
  • Ministry of Commerce and Industry:
    • Knowledge Oasis Muscat
  • Omani Centre for Investment and Export Development
  • Ruwad: magazine launched in 2009, in conjunction with Intilaaqah, Sharakah, and Alam Aliktisaad Wala’mal, by United Press & Publishing.
  • SANAD
  • The 2006 World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WSIE) was held in Muscat

 Palestine[edit]

 Qatar[edit]

  • Arab Youth Venture
  • Bedaya Center
  • Enterprise Qatar
  • INJAZ Qatar[1]
  • Qatar University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest (QUIEC)- College of Engineering and College of Business and Economics
  • Qatar Mobility Innovations Center (QMIC)
  • Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) initiative
  • Qatar Business Incubation Center (QBIC)
  • Qatar Foundation
    • Qatar Science & Technology Park
    • Stars of Science
    • Social Development Center
  • Silatech

Stars of Science

 Saudi Arabia[edit]

  • Badir Program for technology Incubators and Accelerators.[3]
  • Centennial Fund National Entrepreneurship Center
  • Center for development of S&M Facilities
  • Global Competitiveness Forum
  • Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST) initiative
  • Imdad logistics Logistics Consultants .www.imdadlogistics.com
  • INJAZ-Saudi Arabia, to inspire and prepare Saudi youth to succeed in a global, knowledge based economy. (www.injaz-saudi.org)
  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology - www.kaust.edu.sa and innovation.kaust.edu.sa

(KAUST runs startup accelerators including the Hikma IP-based Startup Accelerator and New Ventures Accelerator)

 Somalia[edit]

 Sudan[edit]

 Syria[edit]

  • HIAST — Higher Institute for Advanced S&T
  • Junior Chamber International — Syria
  • MAWRED Incubator for women entrepreneurs
  • SEBC — Syrian-Enterprise & Business Centre
  • SEBC - BI SEBC Business Incubator
  • SKILLS
  • Syrian Management Consultants Association
  • Business Angels Gate
  • Syrian Computer Society's ICT (see also MBRF Arab Incubator Network)
  • Syria Trust for Development
    • Massar
    • Shabab
    • FIRDOS - Fund for Integrated Rural Development of Syria
  • BIDAYA(founded by Asma Assad in conjunction with Youth Business International, FIRDOS, MAWRED, and SYEA)
  • SYEA - Syrian Young Entrepreneurs Association

 Tunisia[edit]

 United Arab Emirates[edit]

 Yemen[edit]

Regional initiatives in the Arab League[edit]

See also[edit]

Entrepreneurship Policies in the Arab world

References[edit]

  1. ^ "INJAZ Qatar". www.injaz-qatar.org. Retrieved 2018-06-15.
  2. ^ "The Yemeni Entrepreneurial Ecoysystem, Special Report" (PDF). Entrepreneur Middle East Magazine. June 2016.
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