Innovation & Investment
From The Report: Dubai 2018
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Building on its reputation as a global city, regional financial centre and showcase of smart technology, Dubai is forging an economic future based on investment in forward-thinking ideas. As part of this strategy, the emirate is set to welcome millions of visitors to Expo 2020, which is aimed at creating an international platform to foster creative thinking on development goals for the MENA region and South-east Asia. The emirate’s leaders are already looking beyond the horizon at the impact modern science and technology can play in the UAE Centennial 2071 objectives, which offer an outlook for the long-term work planned to solidify the country’s reputation as a world leader.

This chapter contains an interview with Yousuf Al Shaibani, Director-General, Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre.

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Overview

Looking ahead: Government investment plans focus on creativity, range and dynamism to drive future entrepreneurial growth
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Building on its reputation as a global city, regional financial centre and showcase of smart technology, Dubai is forging an economic future based on investment in forward-thinking ideas. As part of this strategy, the emirate is set to welcome millions of visitors to Expo 2020, which is aimed at creating an international platform to foster creative thinking on development goals for the MENA region and South-east Asia. The emirate’s leaders are already looking beyond the horizon at the…

Interview

Star quality: Yousuf Al Shaibani, Director-General, Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, on past and future endeavours
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Interview:Yousuf Al Shaibani How has the experience of launching DubaiSat-1 and DubaiSat-2 contributed to the development of the space industry in the UAE? YOUSUF AL SHAIBANI: The capacity to develop our own satellite has come in three phases. First, in the initial phases of developing the centre for DubaiSat-1, we focused on partnering with sector companies to develop satellites on a technology and know-how transfer basis. The main goal was to eventually nationalise the development of our…

Analysis

Centre of attraction: A range of strategic public initiatives look to build the global city of the future
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Dubai’s desire to capture and leverage innovative technological breakthroughs is manifest in the number of incentives offered for the world’s smartest minds and most dynamic start-ups. While there are a number of independent entities offering funding and incentives for forward-thinking enterprises, the emirate’s leadership has also developed a framework of agencies and organisations charged with attracting talent. Framework In February 2016 Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, vice…