INNOVATION – Start-ups and tech transfers boosting Mediterranean clusters

Since their arrival on the Mediterranean scene, with pioneers such as the El Ghazala (Tunisia), Berytech (Lebanon) and Casablanca Technopark (Morocco) incubators, innovation ecosystems have taken a firm foothold in the region. Technology parks, or technoparks, and clusters, specializing in particular sectors, have completed the network by pooling industry or business sector skills.
In 2017, The Next Society programme listed 478 active organisations, public or private –sometimes a mixture of both, in the field of innovation, spread over seven countries*, including incubators, clusters, accelerators, co-working spaces, fablabs, and technology transfer agencies. The budding entrepreneurship and innovation culture in the Mediterranean has been hugely aided by the proliferation and professionalism of organisations supporting innovation. New programmes to support entrepreneurship, such as those instigated by talent within the diaspora, have also had an impact, as have the first networks of business angels and the private accelerators offering technical support and financing…

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