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DUBAI / WAM
The Executive Team of the Global Innovation Index held its 4th meeting of the current year at the headquarters of the Ministry of Economy in Dubai, to examine the results of yearly report for 2017, where the UAE has achieved an important leap in its general ranking on the Index by six places compared to last year’s result, maintaining its leading position in Arab world and ranking 35th place internationally.
The meeting included a demonstration and an evaluation of the country’s results in the Global Innovation Index 2017, which was recently issued in the city of Geneva, Switzerland.
The participants reviewed the major updates of their initiatives and the efforts of each authority, under the framework of their specialties and their role in strengthening the country’s stature on the Index. They also discussed the upcoming steps to guarantee the country’s continuing advancement on the Index.
The meeting also highlighted the most important factors which contributed to improving the country’s result on the Index and the means of sustaining them, with the most prominent in the input sector being an improvement in the indexes of human capital and research.