Overview

• Bridging the gap between entrepreneurs and policy makers
• What do entrepreneurs want from policy makers ?
• How can policies support Knowledge-based and Entrepreneurship skills.

What will you gain?

• Briefly introducing a knowledge economy model: To think of a country making money out of knowledge (more than half of its GDP)
• A bit on knowledge transfer and knowledge absorption within identified KE transfer channels: to think how can we use this knowledge to create & sustain economic growth and job creation.
• A bleak look at unemployment in the MENA: figures and numbers; the urgency to create jobs.
• The need to move fast.
• Zooming in on the needed skills and secrets of a successful scaled out approach.
• Focus on a successful model of teachers and students training.

Who should attend?

• Policy makers, entrepreneurs, education specialists
• This workshop brings the policy maker and the entrepreneur together.
• How can entrepreneurs understand the real challenges facing them and how can they orient their policy makers.
• How can policy makers create enabling environments by connecting socio-economic régimes, innovation (R&D, S&T), education and ICT horizontally towards economic growth and job creation.
• Education and the need to mass train and connect with local communities.

Workshop will be conducted by Reem N. Bsaiso, Senior ICT Consultant