AMENA Center for Entrepreneurship and Development

AMENA Center for Entrepreneurship and Development at UC Berkeley

We equip individuals from the broader Middle East region with state of the art technical, innovative thinking, creative problem-solving, and soft skills, emphasizing the disposition to view challenges as opportunities for generating ideas and the adoption of solutions into new products, processes, and services.

AMENA Radar — Top News

News by Countries

The News by Countries page, as part of AMENA Radar, is designed to organize and display country-specific news on innovation, startups, entrepreneurship, and investment across the AMENA region. Select a country to view updates on startup funding, investor activity, accelerators, innovation hubs, and technology-driven economic developments.

Mission

We alleviate the AMENA region’s AI and advanced technologies innovation, entrepreneurship intrapreneurship, skills, and gender gaps through leveraging the strengths of UC Berkeley.

Services

We design and run the training and acceleration programs of AI innovation hubs, help startups enhance their innovation capacity, and teach short term certificate courses that enhance workforce capacity.

Why UC Berkeley

Developing pathways to promote entrepreneurship and sustainable economic growth in the AMENA region requires an interdisciplinary approach. With its world-class schools and departments, and its proximity to and extensive contacts with Silicon Valley, UC Berkeley has the expertise to make a meaningful difference.

In 2021, Forbes ranked UC Berkeley as the best university in the United States.

According to US News & World Report, America’s longest standing and most widely-read university rankings, UC Berkeley:

Is the #1 ranked public university in the world.
Has the #1 ranked computer science, electrical engineering, environmental/health engineering, civil engineering, chemistry, economics, physics, biological sciences, and ecology departments in the United States.
Has produced the most number of Nobel Laureates in the US after Harvard.

According to Networkworld.com, UC Berkeley is the #1 University for Producing US Technology Industry CEO’s. Also according to PitchBook 2020 university rankings, UC Berkeley ranks nationally as the #1 public and second-best university in the world overall for programs that produce entrepreneurs who go on to obtain venture funding.