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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.

MENAinc network overview (2008)

MENAinc network overview (2008) - in Arabic

MENAinc network overview (2008) - in French

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Highlights

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infoDev Announces Winners of Global Innovators Contest 2009 Following a call for candidates in March for the Global Innovators 2009 contest, infoDev is pleased to announce that it has select... 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”

http://www.menainc.net

Regional Snapshot

26 organizations in 12 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, 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

	Incubators
Academic	5
Government	9
NGO	10
Private sector	2

Financial Model

	Incubators
For-profit	1
Not-for-profit	25

Targets

	Incubators
Rural poor	4
Urban poor	3
Women	5
Youth	12

Sectors

	Incubators
Agriculture	3
Biotechnology	0
Clean Technology	0
Information and Communication Technologies	16
Manufacturing	3
Mixed Use	7
None	0
Textile	0

Services

	Incubators
Facilities	24
Finance	22
Incubation and Business Development	23
International Business Services	17
Networks and Synergy	22
Technology Transfer	18

Objectives

	Incubators
Affect policymaking	16
Commercialize research	17
Create companies that export revenues	12
Create jobs	18
Develop profitable enterprises	21
Provide income generating opportunities for disadvantaged populations	9
Raise the awareness of potential entrepreneurs	22

Number of Clients

# Reporting	21
Min	4
Mean	70
Max	625
Total	1,488

	Incubators
1-5	2
6-10	8
11-15	1
16-20	0
21+	10

Employees in Client Firms

# Reporting	22
Min	4
Mean	331
Max	3,000
Total	7,290

	Incubators
1-15	5
16-30	5
31-45	1
46-60	2
61+	9

Number of Graduates

# Reporting	12
Min	2
Mean	13
Max	52
Total	158

	Incubators
1-3	4
4-6	4
7-10	0
10-13	1
14+	3

Employees in Graduated Firms (Jobs Created)

# Reporting	12
Min	5
Mean	29
Max	100
Total	356

	Incubators
1-15	5
16-30	4
31-45	1
46-60	0
61+	2

Years in Operation

# Reporting	26
Min	2
Mean	6
Max	32
Total	161

	Incubators
0-3	5
4-6	13
7-9	6
10+	2

Space (sq.m)

# Reporting	19
Min	200
Mean	2,154
Max	12,301
Total	40,926

	Incubators
1-1,000	10
1,001-10,000	8
10,001+	1

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