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MENAinc is the regional network of business incubation and entrepreneurship support institutions, organizations, associations, and networks – formal or informal – in the Middle East and North African region. MENAinc is part of the global network of the infoDev Incubator Initiative.

Our objectives are:

Create awareness about incubation
Influence the development of country policies relating to incubation & entrepreneurship
Share tools and practices
Develop knowledge repositories as part of the global iDISC Incubator Support Center

MENAinc invites all parties able and willing to support our mission to join the network.

For further information about MENAinc, please contact infoDev's Regional Facilitator for the MENA region, Mr. Heinz Fiedler, via e-mail: heinz@spice-group.de.

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Highlights

Women a rising growth engine in MENA

ICTs “the leap forward for women entrepreneurs,” says infoDev Program Manager

15 October 2012 | Watch the video of our high-level panel, “Women Entrepreneurship to Reshape the Economy through Innovation in MENA,” held at the European Development Days (EDD) conference in Brussels on October 16. More

Pakistan: engaging SMEs to stablize the economy SMEs stabilize economic growth and drive regional economic development in many developing and developed economies.In Pakistan, sma... More

HSBC hands out $136m to SMEs in UAE in Q2 More than AED500m ($136m) has been allocated by HSBC to small and medium sized businesses in the UAE in the past three months, the... More

Small and medium enterprises, or SMEs, have become a vital cog to the growth of the UAE economy, contributing 60 per cent of the national GDP in 2011, according to the UAE Ministry of Economy Small and medium enterprises, or SMEs, have become a vital cog to the growth of the UAE economy, contributing 60 per cent of the n... More

iDisc Incubator PICTI Held Business & Innovation Centre Launching Ceremony Palestine Information & Communications Technology Incubator (PICTI) celebrated its launch as a Palestine Business & Innovation Cen... More

€15m credit line to support investment by Lebanese SMEs/SMIs The Societe Generale de Banque au Liban and the European Investment Bank (EIB) signed an agreement for the establishment of a cred... More

Dubai launches index to boost banks, SMEs ties Dubai SME on Monday launched the ‘SME Friendliness Index’ that will help enable banks to access 230,000 SMEs in the UAE and realis... More

Saudi- SIMAH targets 800,000 firms within SME category (MENAFN - Arab News) Nabeel Al-Mubarak, CEO of Saudi Credit Bureau (SIMAH), says the taqyeem project has targeted some 800,000 fir... More

HSBC launches Dhs1bn International Trade SME Fund HSBC announces that it has launched its latest International Trade SME Fund, committing Dhs1bn to UAE SMEs. Open to new and existi... More

Importance of financial statements to SMEs stressed A financial expert has emphasized the importance of financial statements to the small and medium enterprises (SMEs). More

A 360-degree innovation for SMEs needed in Middle East The need for small and medium enterprises (SME) growth initiatives is vital for the Middle East to ensure these markets have a sus... More

Saudi banks lend $247m to SMEs in four years RIYADH: Saudi banks provided $247 million loans to 1,113 small and medium enterprises (SMEs) during the period 2006-2010, an exper... More

International TV network features m2Work The Alhurra TV Network, which reaches 37 million weekly viewers across 22 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), pr... More

Recap: Saudi Arabia's Startup Weekend Last month the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, supported by Badir Program for Technology Incubators, hosted the fi... More

infoDev identified as a Leader in Mobile Innovation Pyramid Research recently highlighted infoDev's contribution to supporting and promoting mobile innovation in Africa and the Middl... More

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Our mission is: “Leveraging regional business incubation experiences with the timely and effective involvement of concerned stakeholders for bettering aligning and advancing national incubation initiatives at their various stages” The new MENAinc website will be launched soon!

Regional Snapshot

11 organizations in 7 countries throughout Middle East/North Africa.

Regional Statistics

Regional Facilitator

Heinz Fiedler

Success Stories

E-learning and Edutainment solutions: SanabilMed, Tunisia

28 April 2010 | More

World-class 3D animation made by Crows Animation Damascus/Syria

24 November 2009 | By Mr. Mohammad Wasseym Abdulghani, Co-Founder/Creative Director of Crows Animation Studio, Damascus/Syria. More

Micro-Scale Food Processing at Village Business Incubator, Syrian Arab Republic

25 February 2009 | More

FirstMile Telekom successfully graduates from Casablanca Technopark in Morocco

30 June 2008 | More

Business Solutions Provider for the Banking Industry at iPark in Jordan

27 June 2008 | More

Featured Tools

Business plan contest example and documentation by Palestine PICTI

3 December 2007 | More

Pre-incubation agreement template by Palestine PICTI

3 December 2007 | More

Example of Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) by Palestine PICTI

3 December 2007 | More

Application form in French used by Morocco Casablanca Technology Park

3 December 2007 | More

Technology park services tool by Jordan iPark

3 December 2007 | More

Contract tool used by Morocco Al Akhawayn University

3 December 2007 | More

Introduction to incubator operations in Arabic by Tunisia Al-Ghazal Technopark

3 December 2007 | More

Supporting incubation projects from first contact to post-incubation by Morocco RMIE

3 December 2007 | More

Business plan tool by Morocco RMIE

3 December 2007 | More

Incubator application form in French by Morocco RMIE

3 December 2007 | More

Preliminary Application Questionnaire by Jordan iPARK

3 December 2007 | More

Youth entrepreneurial evaluation matrix by PICTI

3 December 2007 | More

Presentations

African Incubator Network Experience, Charles Kwesiga.pdf 11/26/2007

Asia Incubation Network, Saffar Annuar .pdf 11/26/2007

Baltic Association for Innovation, Stabulnieks Janis.pdf 11/26/2007

Berytech experience in Lebanon, Rouhana Nicolas.pdf 11/26/2007

Business Incubation and Entrepreneurship Climate in Morocco , AZZIOUI Ilyas .pdf 11/26/2007

Business Incubation Experience in Syria, Rima Shaban.pdf 11/26/2007

Business Incubation Initiatives in Saudi Arabia, Nabil Shalabi.pdf 11/26/2007

Developing effectice Monitoring & Evaluation frameworks, Laith Kassis.pdf 11/26/2007

Indicators and Benchmarking for Innovation Projects, Bagrat Yengibaryan.pdf 11/26/2007

infoDev Business Incubation Training Program - Overview

infoDev Business Incubation Training Program: Overview of Modules

infoDev, Olafsen Ellen.pdf 11/26/2007

Innovation and Technology Transfer in the MED countries, Woodham Richard.pdf 11/26/2007

International Partnership in developing I&E support, Seidel Uwe.pdf 11/26/2007

Kuwait Finance House.pdf 11/26/2007

Metutech Information Management System, Oguz Yilmaz.pdf 11/26/2007

Off Capital financing for Innovation and Entrepreneurship support, Ivan Stefanic.pdf 11/26/2007

Ovecoming Challenges to Enterprise Financing, Koldertsova Alissa.pdf 11/26/2007

PICTI Business Incubation Experience in the West Bank, Laith Kassis.pdf 11/26/2007

Status of establishing Libyan incubator, Seidel Uwe.pdf 11/26/2007

UKBI, Peter Harman.pdf 11/26/2007

UNIDO, Hashim Hussein.pdf 11/26/2007

University linkages, AlAkhawayn Uni Morocco, Derrabi Mohammed.pdf 11/26/2007

VDIVDE innovation support, Seidel Uwe.pdf 11/26/2007

Venture capital experience for NetConsulting, Benhamida Amine .pdf 11/26/2007

Women Entreprenurship in Ukraine, Gagauz Inna .pdf 11/26/2007

Women Entrpreneurship in Tunisia, Rahman Soukaina.pdf 11/26/2007

Women's role in economic development in Syria, Halabi Khulud.pdf 11/26/2007

Women's role in economic development in Syria, Halabi Khulud.zip 11/26/2007

Reports

High-growth ICT enterprise business incubation, infoDev working group, Final report (April 2010)

iDISC overview & network statistics (2008)

MENAinc network overview (2008)

MENAinc network overview (2008) - in Arabic

MENAinc network overview (2008) - in French

Speech by Torek Farhadi, Head of Islamic Development Bank

Youth focused business incubation, infoDev working group, Final Report (Dec 2009)

Photos

Regional Workshop: Middle East & Northern Africa

24 October, 2007 | View Photos

Statistics

The following table provides a statistical overview of data for this region, collected from the iDisc member directory. Note that zero values are excluded throughout.

Type

Financial Model

Targets

Sectors

Services

Objectives

Number of Clients

# Reporting	9
Min	5
Mean	58
Max	126
Total	523

Employees in Client Firms

# Reporting	9
Min	9
Mean	427
Max	2,650
Total	3,847

Number of Graduates

# Reporting	5
Min	3
Mean	7
Max	24
Total	38

Employees in Graduated Firms (Jobs Created)

# Reporting	5
Min	10
Mean	36
Max	130
Total	181

Years in Operation

# Reporting	11
Min	3
Mean	6
Max	14
Total	73

Space (sq.m)

# Reporting	9
Min	400
Mean	2,552
Max	9,000
Total	22,972

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16 April 2013