The Innovation Support group serves mainly National ICT Companies in collaboration with Multinational companies and aims to create and empower a local innovation-based culture that’s capable of creating competitive innovative Egyptian products. Innovation Support group also serves youth by conducting workshops and competitions.

• Branding Egypt as a hub for ICT innovation.
• Engaging the ecosystem of stakeholders in generating, financing, supporting and deploying ICT-related innovations.
• Creating and nurturing the innovation culture.
• Enticing foreign and local ICT companies in Egypt to generate enrich and expand innovative ideas.

services offered by the Innovation Support Group are divided into 3 levels

• Level 1: Establishing the Foundation of Innovation.


• Establish ICT Innovation platform to connect nodes in the national innovation ecosystem.
• Assist companies to develop their innovation management capabilities.
• Develop policy advocacy process to develop Incentives for innovation.
• Capacity building of university students and graduates in the key emerging technology.
• Level 2: Empowering Businesses


• Support innovative firms through increasing the demand of ICT in non-ICT sectors and developing Industrial initiatives and competitions.
• Increase funds to bridge the funding gap along the innovation process.
• Support the development of technology specific clusters and establish a technology observatory.
• Increase local firms’ ability to absorb superior technology from MNCs and foster strategic alliances.
• Encourage MNCs to establish and/or expand their R&D activities in Egypt.
• Help Egyptian ICT firms to patent their knowledge creations and create an appropriate forum for licensing.
• Organizing National and International conferences and networking activities.
• Level 3: Recognizing Innovation


• Create awards for celebrating ICT innovation.
• Orchestrate campaigns to showcase the success of innovative Egyptians as ICT role models.

The Innovation support group is a partner to most of MNCs operating in Egypt such as :

• Orange labs
• EMC
• Microsoft
• IBM
• Valeo