Regional Meet the makers: GE Garages and the future of industrial entrepreneurship As the MENA region grapples with non-hydrocarbon diversification in the aftermath of the oil price shock, a slew of strategic announcements... Vanessa Khalil • 03 July, 2016 MEMakersGE GEMS robotics
Regional Big data in health: good for anything yet? Using big data in healthcare, anywhere, might it be true to say no one seems to quite know what they’re doing yet? But Dr.... Lucy Knight • 29 June, 2016 Ver2 Digital Medicine MEMakersGE healthcare analytics
Regional MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab's "Innovate for Refugees" Competition MIT Enterprise Forum Pan-Arab Region is on a mission to #CracktheCrisis by finding and rewarding tech-driven solutions that help alleviate... Wamda • 28 June, 2016 refugees MIT
Regional When MENA investors don’t bank on women For years, Lebanese entrepreneur Rayan Zahab would get called in for job interviews, only to hear hiring managers say the same thing: they... Brooke Anderson • 27 June, 2016 Golden Seeds Snapay Women Investing in Women Digital
Regional Share the love with a stock option pool [Opinion] Building a startup is a team effort, so it’s only fair that the team you share your entrepreneurial journey with also shares in some... Tamer Azer • 23 June, 2016 SOP Stock options A15
Regional How can startups build successful collaborations with corporations? This article was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. Collaborative entrepreneurship initiatives are trending and an... Jana Kassem • 21 June, 2016 Coentrepreneurship Expo 2020 Dubai CE
Regional What I know about investing in robotics: Jose Berengueres To obtain his PhD in bio-inspired robotics at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr. Jose Berengueres studied the movement of a gecko in... Archana Menon • 20 June, 2016 Adasi pal robotics robotics
Regional How to prepare for post-oil MENA [Wamda TV] This video was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. “We need to figure out what are the things here [in the MENA... Berthe El Aya • 19 June, 2016 Keynote Joichi Ito CE Summit
Regional Community Jameel and Wamda host MIT Media Lab Dubai Workshop #MLDubai Cities are rising at a fast pace. The MENA region has seen this with Dubai, and shortly after, Masdar City. In the meantime,... Wamda • 18 June, 2016 Workshop MIT Media Lab Dubai
Regional Applications open for Start IT with Etisalat Start IT with Etisalat are on the lookout for this year’s batch of aspiring Egyptian entrepreneurs. The initiative,... Wamda • 16 June, 2016 etisalat IoT start it
Regional HiiL Innovating Justice: call for applications Justice through technology is their alma mater. HiiL is an initiative constantly seeking ways to implement new innovations and technologies... Wamda • 16 June, 2016 conflict resolution Innovating Justice Hiil
Regional Don’t ask for change, create change [Opinion] I was asked to give a commencement speech at Hamad bin Khalifa University in Doha on May 1. Below is an edited version of what I said. I... Habib Haddad • 16 June, 2016 change The power of yalla Habib Haddad
Regional MENAT accelerators invest $3.5M, lag global averages Accelerators have become a “rite of passage” for entrepreneurs around the world, and a report on the state of global programs... Rachel Williamson • 15 June, 2016 business acclerator Global Accelerator Report central bank of jordan
Regional Visualizing corporate-startup engagement in MENA [Infographic] This article was first posted on the Coentrepreneurship platform. During the Collaborative Entrepreneurship (CE) Summit held last month,... Teeb Assaf • 14 June, 2016 Expo 2020 Dubai Collaborative Entrepreneurship WRL
Regional Corporate-startup partnerships, where are we at in MENA? [Report] 89 percent of large corporations and 94 percent of startups see value in partnering together. [Tweet this] This is one of many findings... Teeb Assaf • 12 June, 2016 Expo 2020 Dubai Collaborative Entrepreneurship WRL
Regional A marriage of opportunity: why I believe in collaborative entrepreneurship [Opinion] I begin with a confession: I didn’t believe in collaborative entrepreneurship. Don’t get me wrong,... Christopher Schroeder • 09 June, 2016 Startup Rising CE Collaborative Entrepreneurship
Regional 18 Iftar feasts from your phone Typically during Ramadan there is a spike in the region’s food industry. Early mornings and late nights boost take-away food sales... Maysaa Ajjan • 06 June, 2016 Bilbayt Lebanese Food Kitchen 24h.ae
Regional Uber’s getting cuddly with KSA - but it’s not what you think [Opinion] My initial reaction to Uber’s $3.5 billion round was: great! It is easy to frown upon the deal and question why the... Laith Zraikat • 06 June, 2016 Public Investment Fund Opinion Arzan VC
Regional Activate and accelerate: 14 CE tools for corporations In May of this year, British banking and financial services company Barclays partnered with Flat6Labs to open Egypt's first... Jonas Feller • 02 June, 2016 Expo 2020 Dubai Collaborative Entrepreneurship corporations
Regional Arab girls defy stereotypes at Microsoft Imagine Cup Two teams from Tunisia alongside one from Bahrain will represent MENA at the global final in Seattle. (Images via Eduard Cousin) Malak... Eduard Cousin • 31 May, 2016 microsoft imagine cup microsoft Egypt
Regional MENA’s startup health movement: a MEMakers report In a new report from Wamda Research Lab (WRL) in partnership with GE, we interviewed over 120 entrepreneurs, investors,... Willam Altman • 29 May, 2016 startup health digital health MEMakersGE
Regional Exploring the frontiers of Arabic natural language processing Humans and machines, such a beautiful pairing. (Image via Sdtimes.com) A monetized mobile app that crowdsources the digitization of Arabic... Samuel Wendel • 25 May, 2016 Sakhr Arabic Snippets NYU Abu Dhabi
Regional Changing MENA with the 'sharing economy' HBR Creative Platform puts collaboration at the center. (Imave via HBR Creative Platform) This article is an edited crosspost from... Asmaa Guedira • 24 May, 2016
Regional What I know about game publishing: Joseph Shomali The profits to be made in gaming are not to be sniffed at. But that's generally for countries outside of the Middle East. In 2014... Lucy Knight • 23 May, 2016 games xp babil games Joseph Shomali