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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| Quick Facts | |
|---|---|
| Report location: | source |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | World Government Summit 2023, strategy &, 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.”
Additional Viewpoints
Categories: 2020s time horizon | 2023 publication year | 2023 time horizon | 2040 time horizon | 2040s time horizon | English publication language | MENA geographic scope | Middle East and North Africa (MENA) geographic scope | algorithm | cross-border collaboration | digital | economic transformation | health issues | long-term funding | metaverse | moonshot innovation | paradigm shifts | resource scarcity | space colonization | sustainability | talent ecosystem | technological advancement | wicked challenges