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Book SynopsisEntrepreneurship is an essential driver for economic growth and innovation. With the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) economies implementing reforms to improve employment, growth, diversification, governance structures, private sector development, the ecosystem encouraging MENA's digital entrepreneurship potential has been falling into place to unlock all its entrepreneurship potential.
Entrepreneurial Rise in the Middle East and North Africa shares contributions from researchers and practitioners in a wide variety of fields related to the relationships and inter-dependencies between innovation, political regimes, and economic and social development throughout the MENA region. Chapters explore innovations across these varied sectors, emphasising on the discovery of emerging patterns and catalysts to these innovations and their impact on future research, practice, and policy. The Quadruple Helix model describes this new economic environment with examples throughout the MENA region on how government, universities, companies, civil society/community support innovation.
Examining these unique start-up scenes, Entrepreneurial Rise in the Middle East and North Africa: The Influence of Quadruple Helix on Technological Innovation will be beneficial for upcoming students, entrepreneurs, and researchers interested in the concepts of the Quadruple Helix model of innovation, tech start-ups, and entrepreneurship rise in the Middle East and North Africa.
Table of ContentsForeword; Dima Rachid Jamali
Chapter 1. The Entrepreneurial Rise and Technological Innovation in the Middle East and North Africa; Stavros Sindakis and Sakshi Aggarwal
Section A. Evolution of Entrepreneurial Activities in the Middle East and North Africa
Chapter 2. The Four Pillars of Quadruple Helix Innovation Model: An Approach for the Future; Sakshi Aggarwal and Stavros Sindakis
Chapter 3. Entrepreneurship Development in Qatar; Ahmad Hawi, Farha Al-Kuwari, and Christophe Garonne
Chapter 4. Entrepreneurship, Peace, and Institutions in the Middle East and North Africa Region; Jay Joseph
Chapter 5. Entrepreneurial Marketing in Jordanian SMEs: Initiatives and Challenges; Ghazi Al-Weshah, Dana Kakeesh, and Fawwaz Alhammad
Chapter 6. Exploring Youth Entrepreneurship in the United Arab Emirates; Stavros Sindakis and Sakshi Aggarwal
Section B. Economic Development and New Business Creation
Chapter 7. The Economic Development of Tourism in the United Arab Emirates; Georgia Papadopoulou
Chapter 8. Using Design Thinking to Accelerate Progress Towards the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals in the Middle East and North Africa Region; Paul G. C. Hector
Chapter 9. The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Entrepreneurship: Examining the Cases of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates; Stavros Sindakis and Sakshi Aggarwal
Chapter 10. FinTech in the United Arab Emirates: A General Introduction to the Main Aspects of Financial Technology; Fatima Saif Ahmed Kameel Alblooshi
Section C. Cultural Influence on Innovation and Information Infrastructure
Chapter 11. Effects of National Culture on Adaptation of Employees to the Innovation in Workplace: The Case of the Middle East and North Africa Region; Zohra Ghali, Khadija Saidi, and Arfia Aman
Chapter 12. Cultural Influence on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa; Sakshi Aggarwal and Stavros Sindakis
Chapter 13. Innovation Networks and Knowledge Clusters Accelerating Value Creation in the Middle East and North Africa; Nipun Dhaulta
Chapter 14. The Analysis of the National Innovation System of The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; Sotirios Zygiaris
Epilogue
Chapter 15. Emerging Influence of Quadruple Helix Innovation Model in the Middle East and North Africa; Sakshi Aggarwal and Stavros Sindakis
