A follow-up meeting to Develop an Innovation Scoreboard for the MENA Region

A follow-up meeting of the 1st Experts’ Meeting to Develop an Innovation Scoreboard for the MENA Region (held in Cairo on November 2014) with national coordinators to select the final indicators and discuss the data collection procedures will be held in Amman, on the 18th and 19th of March 2015.

This workshop will gather experts from Egypt, Jordon, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, Bahrain and Qatar, during which the participants wil discuss about the framework and the possible relevant innovation indicators to the region.

On November 19th and 20th, 2014, the European Investment Bank (EIB), through the Marseille Centre for Mediterranean Integration (CMI), co-organised with the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), and the United Nations ESCWA Technology Center, an experts’ meeting in collaboration with the League of The Arab States (LAS) in Cairo, Egypt.

The experts’ meeting aimed to initiate and develop a MENA Innovation Scoreboard that is more adapted to the region particularities. Very few data is available on MENA countries’ innovation capacities and performances, whereas innovation scoreboards have proved to be important tools to monitor the progress of a country innovation process, as well as feed the policy dialogue with data and information serving as a reference point for policy-makers.