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* [http://www.abraaj.com Abraaj Capital] |
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** [http://www.abraaj.com/english/art-about-prize.aspx Abraaj Capital Arts Prize] |
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* [http://www.aljcsp.org Abdul Latif Jameel Community Services Program] |
* [http://www.aljcsp.org Abdul Latif Jameel Community Services Program] |
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* [[Acumen Fund]][http://www.acumenfund.org] |
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* [http://www.larta.org Larta Institute] |
* [http://www.larta.org Larta Institute] |
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* [http://www.li.com Legatum Institute] |
* [http://www.li.com Legatum Institute] |
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* [ Legatum Ventures] |
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* [[Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum]] Foundation [http://www.mbrfoundation.ae/English/Entrepreneurship/Pages/EntrepreneurshipProgrammes.aspx (MBRF)] |
* [[Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum]] Foundation [http://www.mbrfoundation.ae/English/Entrepreneurship/Pages/EntrepreneurshipProgrammes.aspx (MBRF)] |
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** [http://www.mbrfoundation.ae/English/Entrepreneurship/Pages/ArabIncubatorsNetwork.aspx Arab Incubator Network] |
** [http://www.mbrfoundation.ae/English/Entrepreneurship/Pages/ArabIncubatorsNetwork.aspx Arab Incubator Network] |
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Revision as of 17:54, 13 October 2009
Arab entrepreneurship initiatives: this is a list of active, multi-year initiatives taken to promote entrepreneurship in Arab-majority countries. It includes private-sector, government, NGO and INGO initiatives.
- Agence Nationale de Développement de l’Investissement (ANDI, the National Investment Development Agency)[1]
- ANVREDET – Research Development Agency[2]
- CDTA – Centre for Advanced Technologies[3]
- CERIST – National Research Centre[4]
- DZ-Invest – The Foreign Direct Investment Agency
- EPA-ANSA Technology Park, City of Medicine and Cyber Park[5]
- EU Delegation in Algeria[6]
- FINALEP[7]
- SIPAREX[8]
{These need review and redacting.}
- Alexandria Small Development Center
- Alashanek ya Balady Association for Sustainable Development (AYB-SD), microfinance NGO
- Ashoka, Ashoka Arab World
- EFG-Hermes Private Equity[9]
- IDEAVELOPERS[10]
- Egypt's Technology Development Fund[11]
- EFE-Egypt
- Egyptian Business Women Association
- Egyptian Incubator Association
- Egyptian Junior Business Association
- Nahdet El Mahrousa
- Middle East Council for Small Business & Entrepreneurship
- School Fund For Development
- SIFE-Egypt
{please add more -- we've barely begun on Egypt}
- Injaz, [12]
- Jordan Career Education Foundation
- MENA100
- Creative Jordan, [13]
- Queen Rania Center for Entrepreneurship
- Najah
- Young Entrepreneurs Association
- Entreprise Productivity Centre
- EFE-Jordan
- Jordan Forum for Business and Professional Women
- National Fund for Enterprise Support[14]
- Jordan Venture Projects[15]
- Atlas Investment[16]
- Bidaya Ventures
- "incubators":
- HCST-ICT Incubator
- JFBPW Incubator
- RSS - EE&IE Incubator
- AECE Incubator system at Al Yarmouk
- U of Jordan Agro-Industry Incubator
- JTG Incubator
- NACTIB - National Network of Incubators
- Cyber City[17]
- Association for the Development of Rural Capacities
- Association Entraide Professionnelle
- Al Majmoua
- Al-Iktissad Wal-Aamal
- Ameen [18]
- Center For Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the AUB American University of Beirut
- Bader Lebanon
- Berytech, [19]
- BIAT Center
- Dragons Den: Al Aareen, on Beirut's Future Television
- Euro-Lebanese Centre For Industrial Modernsation
- Georges N. Frem Foundation
- Ijma3
- Lebanon Partnership
- Lira
- MACLE
- Makhzoumi
- MOET
- Philips Innovation Program
- Qualeb Programme
- René Moawad Foundation
- RootSpace
- SME Unit
- South BIC
- Young Arab Women Entrepreneurs
- Al Akhawayan University
- AFEM, Moroccan Businesswomen's Association
- ANPME - The National SME Association[20]
- ANPME - National SME Agency
- Biotech Maroc
- CAC - Network of Business Advisory Bureaus
- Casablanca Technopark[21]
- CMPP - Moroccan Centre for Clean Manufacturing
- CREFACE - Network of Business Start-up Centres
- Education for Employment Foundation (EFE-Maroc)
- Government Ministries {revise: only leave in if sub-links relate directly to entrepreneurship}
- Network Maroc Entrepreneurs[24]
- OFPPT - National Manpower and Professional Training Bureau
- PTR - A National Technology Services Network
- RMIE – Moroccan Incubator and Start-up network[25]
- R+D Maroc – The Moroccan RTD Association
- SIFE-Morocco
- University incubators:
- National University System[26]
- l’Université Mohammed Premier Oujda[27]
- 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[28]
- Incubator at the Faculté des Sciences El Jadida
{redact}
- [29]Omani Centre for Investment and Export Development
- SANAD
- Shell Oil's Intilaaqah (social investment programme)
- Fund for the Development of Youth Projects:
- Sharakah[youth@omantel.net.om]
- Ruwad: magazine launched in 2009, in conjunction with Intilaaqah, Sharakah, and Alam Aliktisaad Wala’mal, by United Press & Publishing.[30]
- Ministry of Commerce and Industry:
- [31]Knowledge Oasis Muscat
- The 2006 World Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WSIE) was held in Muscat
- EFE West Bank/Gaza
- Palestine Investment Promotion Agency
- Palestine Information and Communication Technology Incubator (PICTI)
- Abdul Latif Jameel Co. Ltd.
- Centennial Fund National Entrepreneurship Center
- Center for development of S&M Facilities
- Dallah AlBaraka
- Global Competitiveness Forum
- King Abdullah University for Science & Technology
- King Saud University Entrepreneurship Center
- Saudi Entrepreneurship Development Insititute
- Saudi Fast Growth 100
- Uhuru
- Women's Incubator and Training Center
- HIAST – Higher Institute for Advanced S&T
- Junior Chamber International – Syria
- MAWRED Incubator for women entreprneeurs[32] (archive)
- SEBC – Syrian-European Business Centre[33]
- Syrian Computer Society's ICT (see also MBRF Arab Incubator Network)
- The Syria Trust for Development
- SYEA - Syrian Young Entrepreneurs Association[35]
- Centre des Jeunes Dirigeants d’Entreprise
- Jeune Chambre de Commerce de Tunisie
- Institute Arab des Chefs d'Entreprise
- API - Agence de Promotion Industrielle[36]
- Centre de Soutien à la Création d'Entreprise[37]
- Arab Business Angels Network
- Al Tamimi Investments' The Big Start
- Al Tomooh Finance Scheme for Small National Business (in conjunction with Emirates Bank and Sheikh Mohammed)
- Dubai Incubator Oasis (airport free-trade zone)
- Forsa business plan competition
- Intilaq
- Kanara Entrepreneurs Ltd.
- Khalifa Fund
- Mohamed Bin Rashid Establishment For Young Business Leaders, "SME"
- Mohamed Bin Rashid Foundation (MBRF; see also Regional and global initiatives, below)
- Tecom {MOU w/ MBRF}
- The Indus Entrepreneurs
- Young Arab Leaders (YAL)
- Al-Amal Microfinance Bank
- Education for Employment - Yemen
- French Embassy Youth Enterprise Project
- Federation of Yemen Chambers of Commerce and Industry
- GTZ Yemen
- Small and Micro Enterprise Promotion Service
- Small Enterprise Development Fund
- Social Fund for Development
- SOUL
- Yemeni Businessmen's Club
- Youth Leadership Development Forum
Regional and Global Initiatives
- Abraaj Capital
- Abdul Latif Jameel Community Services Program
- Acumen Fund[38]
- Arab Technology Business Plan Competition (begun in 2006, by the Arab Science and Technology Foundation and Intel Corporation)
- Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE)
- Dragons Den: Al Aareen, on Beirut's Future Television
- Education for Employment Foundation
- Dun & Bradstreet SME Advisory Services
- Endeavor
- Envestors
- Global Entrepreneurship Week
- Grameen-Jameel Pan-Arab Microfinance Ltd.
- Injaz
- (See also Injaz's country chapters in a dozen countries: Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman; and forthcoming in Algeria, Libya, Syria, and Yemen.)
- International Finance Corporation
- Private Enterprise Partnership for MENA
- Gender Entrepreneurship Markets for MENA
- (see also IFC-World Bank's Doing Business)
- International Labor Organization initiatives:
- Know About Business (KAB)
- Start and Improve Your Business (SIYB)
- Small Enterprise Development (SEED)
- Youth Entrenet (with Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation[39])
- Larta Institute
- Legatum Institute
- [ Legatum Ventures]
- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation (MBRF)
- Arab Incubator Network
- Sawaed
- Arab Human Capital Challenge
- Philips Innovation Program
- Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the American University of Beirut
- {add other major regional MBRF regional initiatives here}
- MIT-Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship
- MENA-OECD Investment Programme
- MEPI
- Middle East Youth Initiative, MEYI
- Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship
- Silatech
- {list major initiatives here?}
- Start Up Arabia
- Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE)
- Synergos (incl. Arab World Social Innovators Program)[40]
- The Prince of Wales' Youth Business International (YBI)
- (see above: Saudi Arabia's Centennial Fund, Syria's Bidaya, Yemen, etc.)
- UNIDO
- World Bank
- Doing Business (with IFC)
- {list here other WB initiatives focused on MENA entrepreneurship}
- Young Arab Leaders[41] (YAL)
- Young Presidents Organization MENA
- Youth Enterprise Generator