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The INSEAD Innovation and Policy Initiative (IIPI) was set up in April 2010 on the Abu Dhabi campus to work with governments across the Middle East region on innovation policy related issues. Its mission is to become a leading resource and knowledge hub on the role of government in fostering innovative activities in businesses and the wider community. Read more about us..

Latest

Towards a Functional Framework for Measuring National Innovation Efficacy MAHROUM Sami, ALSALEH Yasser Technovation (forthcoming)
Demand-Led Related Diversification: An Innovation Policy Approach to Economic Diversification and Development MAHROUM Sami, ALSALEH Yasser Journal of Science and Public Policy. Read paper
Policy Innovations: Towards an Analytic Framework MAHROUM Sami Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. Read paper
"The Innovation Efficacy Index: Abu Dhabi" training workshop. 1 April 2013. Read more
"Performace Indicators for Schools" IIPI - ADEC workshop. 4-5 March 2013. Read more
INSEAD- DED LEADS 3 Knowledge Exchange session 3 "Dynamics of Analysis & Decision Making for Strategic Leadership" 10 March 2013. Read more
INSEAD Innovation & Policy Initiative Newsletter - Vol2/Issue7 - December 2012. Read more

Upcoming and Recent Policy Breakfasts

Metropolitan Locations in International High-Tech Networks: Collaboration and Exchange of Creative Labour as a Basis for Advanced Socio-Economic Development By Prof. Ulrich Hilpert Professor and Chair of Comparative Government at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany 30 May 2013 Read more

	Competitiveness and New Development Opportunities in Aerospace Aerospace is a mature and complex industry, dominated by a handful of major manufacturers. They are household names (Boeing, Airbus), and often can trace their origins back to the creation of the industry in the early part of the last century. Their aircraft are hugely and increasingly complex. They are the products of enormous investments in R and D...Read more
	Supporting Science & Technology Ventures in the Arab World: The Experience of an NGO Around the world, governmental, inter-governmental and business sector organisations are often seen as the natural champions of science and technology ventures and entrepreneurship. However, the Arab world has had its own exception; the Arab Science & Technology Foundation (ASTF) has been active in supporting the creation of S&T ventures across the region. Read more

In the News

PROJECT SYNDICATE - 27 March 2013

Violence and Innovation

In the 1949 British film The Third Man, the character Harry Lime observes that, during the Borgia family’s rule in Renaissance Italy, the country “had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed. But [it] produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance.” Read more

Forbes Middle East - 21 March 2013

سياسات بديلة للتنويع الاقتصادي

يتصدر التنويع الاقتصادي برامج الحكومات في دول مجلس التعاون الخليجي, و يبدو ذلك جلياً في مليارات الدولارات التي يتم انفاقها لتحقيق هذا الهدف. و على غرار مناطق اخرى في العالم, تأتي الحاجة الى التنويع الاقتصادي في الخليج لتقليل الاعتماد اقتصادياً على قطاع معين. Read more

TheNational - 4 March 2013

Experts call on green rules for new UAE buildings

The UAE should prioritise sustainable development to ready itself for life after oil, experts say. Academics are looking at how best to achieve this, and how to train a new generation of Emiratis to do so. Read more