======Moonshot MENA: Making the Middle East the New Cradle Of Innovation======
The MENA region aims to become a global innovation hub, tackling challenges like water scarcity and transforming economies through ambitious, collaborative moonshot projects by 2040.\\ 
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|Report location:  |[[https://www.worldgovernmentsummit.org/docs/default-source/publication/2023/wgs---strategy-moonshot-mena-report_english_vf_020823_spread.pdf?sfvrsn=bb8eeb7d_1|source]]   |
|Language:  |English  |
|Publisher:  |World Government Summit 2023, strategy &, [[encyclopedia:pwc|PwC]]  |
|Publication date:  |2023  |
|Authors:  |Dima Sayess, Dr. André Duerrbeck, Dr. Mark Esposito, Dr. Yahya Anouti, Jonathan Blair Miller, Ramzi Hage, Sarah Al Feghali, Supriya Kumar  |
|Time horizon:  |2023 - 2040    |
|Geographic focus:  |Middle East and North Africa (MENA)   |
|Page count:  |24  |

=====Methods=====
The research method involved analyzing the MENA region's potential, challenges, and current innovation landscape, and proposing strategic shifts necessary for moonshot innovation. 


=====Key Insights=====
"The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has the potential to become a new cradle of global innovation. The region has the potential to pioneer actions of global significance, including transforming energy into food on a massive scale, and leading a new era of space and ocean exploration. It has the aspiration, the potential—and the need—to tackle massive global and regional challenges, most importantly water scarcity."

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