Expectations of high order on offices and residential complexes

Citizen’s entrepreneurs praised the launch of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God preserve him, the national campaign “The Emirates is the capital of entrepreneurs in the world”.

They told «Emirates Today» that the campaign reflects the vision of good leadership in supporting innovators and project owners, and confirms that the UAE is a fertile environment for establishing and developing business, as it carries a large group of programs and opportunities that support Emirati entrepreneurs.

They saw in the campaign a message that the UAE is not only a market, but a global launch platform that unites financing, legislation and government purchases in one framework, as well as Emirati entrepreneurs give a strong boost to reach a larger segment of consumers, highlight the quality of the national product, open new horizons for them, and give them confidence that their projects are part of the national development process.

They expected the demand for offices, commercial exhibitions, and modern residential complexes, keeping pace with the incubation of 10,000 entrepreneurs.

They submitted a set of proposals represented in reducing fees related to factory licenses and renewing them, allocating a mandatory and clear percentage of government purchasing contracts for national factories products, Emirati entrepreneurs, and offering soft financing programs to support the expansion of production lines, and providing preferential prices for basic services, such as electricity, water and logistical services, and they also suggested setting measuring indicators to ensure that the work pioneer began to make fruits Government purchasing contracts.

Strategy

In detail, the CEO and Malika of the Al -Sharq Gate Factory for Bakery Equipment Industry, Khadija Abdullah, told «Emirates Today» that “the national campaign launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God bless him, represents a strategic step to establish the UAE’s position as a global destination for entrepreneurship, and also reflects the vision of the rational leadership in supporting innovators and project owners, and confirms that the UAE is a fertile environment To establish and develop businesses. ”

She stressed that “the importance of this campaign lies in the fact that it opens new horizons for Emirati entrepreneurs, and gives them confidence that their projects are part of the national development process.”

Abdullah explained that benefiting from this campaign is to provide new support and financing channels, and to facilitate access to local and regional markets, in addition to providing opportunities for partnerships with government and private institutions, noting that the campaign will contribute to enhancing awareness of our national products, and facilitating obtaining government facilities that raise the efficiency of business pioneers, and reduce different operational costs.

Abdullah reviewed some of the challenges facing entrepreneurs, such as fees related to factory licenses and their renewal, calling for allocating a percentage of government purchases to national factories products, offering soft financing programs to support the expansion of production lines and developing new technologies, and providing preferential prices for basic services, such as electricity, water and logistical services, which contributes to enhancing the competitiveness of the national product.

It also stressed the importance of holding specialized exhibitions and incubators to promote national industrial products, linking them to global markets, organizing periodic meetings with officials in government departments to present ideas directly, listen to the challenges faced by entrepreneurs and national factories, in order to facilitate the development of practical solutions, and provide the necessary facilities.

Programs and opportunities

For his part, the head of the UAE Agricultural Pioneers Association and the founder of the “Grassa Group”, Hamid Ahmed Al -Hamid, said that the launch of the campaign will be a great motivation for the concerted efforts of all governmental and private agencies to harness all the possibilities to serve entrepreneurs, stressing that the UAE is a leader in multiple fields, and deserves to be the capital of entrepreneurs in the world.

He added, “The campaign will have a large group of programs and opportunities that support Emirati entrepreneurs,” stressing the importance of the entrepreneur that entrepreneurship is not just a commercial activity that is practiced, but rather means exclusivity and excellence, with the importance of finding a qualitative shift in the field in which he works, and to ensure the development of his project, in interdependence with the governmental and private sectors.

He noted the importance of initiatives, such as the classification of entrepreneurship incubators according to different groups, to build the capabilities of entrepreneurs and link them to the government sector, and to enable them to market their projects products, such as technological projects related to food, highlighting success stories through which the following generations are trained for entrepreneurship, and clarifying the concept of entrepreneurship in schools and universities according to the proper pioneering concept.

Al -Hamid suggested setting measuring indicators to ensure that the pioneer began to reap the fruits of government purchasing contracts, work to reduce the fees that may cause the work pioneering pioneers to weaken, help entrepreneurs in identifying various activities and new ideas, and facilitating the issuance of licenses.

Business pioneers

In the same context, the president of the company «7 MD Store» General Trade, Hamad Ali Al -Shamsi, said that “the campaign is necessary to highlight the local products and innovations, enhance consumer confidence in Emirati brands, which is a platform that gives Emirati entrepreneurs a strong boost to reach a larger segment of consumers, highlight the quality of the national product, as it provides an ideal opportunity to communicate with other entrepreneurs, and build partnerships A strategy that serves business growth. ”

Al -Shamsi proposed practical and sustainable initiatives to support the new campaign, foremost of which is the allocation of a mandatory and clear percentage of government contracts and purchases for Emirati entrepreneurs, while simplifying registration procedures, tenders, reviewing and reducing the annual licensing and renewal fees, and unifying them through various bodies to reduce financial burdens.

He also suggested financing programs on facilitated conditions for expansion and providing preferential prices for basic services, such as electricity and logistical services, to support the ability of citizens to compete.

Global platform

As for the founder and CEO of “VIAI” technology, Abdullah Abu Obaid, he saw that the campaign gives a message that the UAE is not only a market, but a global launch platform that unites financing, government legislation and purchases in one framework.

He added: “The campaign is an opportunity to convert individual success stories into a national system that speeds up innovation and reduces the cost. It is also a translation of the saying of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God bless him, that Dubai does not wait for the future but rather goes to it with confident proactive steps.”

Abu Obaid stressed the importance of taking advantage of the lists of government suppliers and government support packages, proposing to allocate a percentage between 5 and 10% of government purchases for the solutions of local startups, while providing special advantages for advanced technical projects, such as providing research and development vouchers, customs exemptions for initial models, and providing government discounts on local cloud and communications, accreditation laboratories, And the completion of a faster pathway for licenses, a temporary experimental license for sensitive technical projects, providing loans and granting with clear indicators, supporting intellectual property, and covering a percentage of patent costs.

Real estate sector

For his part, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of “W. Capital”, for real estate mediation, Walid Al -Zarouni, said that the campaign is a strategic step to consolidate the UAE’s position as a global entrepreneurship center and a strong lever for the biological economic sectors, foremost of which is the real estate sector.

He stressed that «the campaign will open new horizons for the Emirati youth to enter the labor market from the entrepreneurial portal, as it will contribute directly to the revitalization of the real estate market movement, by encouraging the establishment of startups, and providing an incubator environment for new projects that require commercial and residential spaces to practice their business.

Al -Zarouni continued: “The real estate sector will be one of the largest beneficiaries of this campaign, as with the presence of 10 thousand new entrepreneurs expected to embrace, the demand for offices, commercial exhibitions, and modern residential complexes will increase, which enhances the growth of the real estate sector, and pushes more innovation in the development of projects.”

He pointed out that the campaign initiatives, such as supporting the establishment of 250 Emirati real estate companies and companies, reflects a clear trend towards empowering national competencies, and involving them effectively in the real estate future industry, considering that this is a qualitative step towards diversifying the economy, and raising the percentage of Emirati ownership in brokerage and real estate services.

Al -Zarouni suggested the development of a national initiative under the umbrella of the campaign, entitled “Emirati real estate leadership”, concerned with the rehabilitation of a new generation of Emirati entrepreneurs specializing in the real estate sector, through specialized training programs, real estate business incubators, and granting them licenses and financing support to establish competitive real estate companies within the country.

He added: “We need to support the culture of real estate entrepreneurship, so that the Emirati young man is not only an investor, but rather the commander of sustainable real estate projects that keep pace with the market developments, and benefit from the advanced infrastructure and the motivational legislation enjoyed by the state.”

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Global destination

His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God bless him, launched the national campaign «the Emirates as the capital of entrepreneurs in the world», with the aim of consolidating the UAE’s position as a global destination for entrepreneurship, and providing all means of support for Emirati youth.

The most prominent campaign initiatives include the establishment of Startupimirates.ae, a platform that aims to provide for free for free, and includes the establishment of a center that includes a variety of spaces and training for entrepreneurs in the Emirates, and attracting and supporting about 10 thousand entrepreneurs in the Emirates, providing about 30 thousand job opportunities during the next five years.

The national campaign also includes a program to train 10,000 citizens and citizenship to understand the basics and practices of entrepreneurship.

The national campaign also launches a set of specialized programs and initiatives, such as the “Project Management Experts” program, which aims to train and license 500 citizens and citizenship to manage housing construction projects in all its stages, the Emirati tax agent program, which aims to rehabilitate 500 Emirati tax agents in each of the “value -added tax diploma” and “companies tax diploma”.

The campaign also includes the launch of Emirati real estate companies, by embracing citizens and supporting them to establish 250 companies and real estate agency, and an initiative to train 50 content makers in the field of economics and entrepreneurship, in cooperation with the new media academy.

• The “Campaign” establishes the UAE’s position as a global entrepreneurial center.

• Establishing 250 Emirati real estate companies and companies, a clear orientation to enable national competencies.