Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, deputy prime minster and minister of presidential affairs in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), said the government plans to create 60 chief executive of innovation roles for its departments.
Each of the roles will be placed in a different government agency and work towards the goal of getting all agencies to work “with the spirit of innovation”.
The chief executive of innovation holders will be trained in Cambridge, UK.
Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan also announced the creation of seven initiatives in schools and universities to promote innovation. These initiatives include developing a curriculum that promotes innovation, an annual innovation exhibition, innovation incubators in schools and a robot lab.
The creation of these roles fits with the vision of Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the UAE, to make 2015 the “United Arab Emirates year of innovation”.
These 60 positions will help the government achieve the plan set out by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s, ruler of Dubai and prime minister and vice-president of the United Arab Emirate, that aims to make the nation the “most innovative” in the world by 2021.
This article first appeared on our sister site Global Government Venturing.
