UAE ranked as most innovative Arab nation of 2020
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The UAE has continually strengthened its sustainable development capacities.
The UAE has been ranked first in the Arab region and 34th globally in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2020.
The UAE has made innovation a way of life and an administrative approach to modernising government work and strengthening sustainable economic development based on clear plans and strategies. Starting today is Innovation Month 2021, a national occasion for consolidating the country’s position as a global hub of innovation and capacity building, and a catalyst for public and private sectors and individuals to adopt innovative practices.
WAM The UAE has strengthened sustainable economic development based on clear plans and strategies, enabling the country to be ranked first in the Arab region and 34th globally in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2020.
Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis, innovation has become the key weapon used by the UAE to address emerging challenges and turn them into opportunities, ensuring business continuity in all vital sectors, upon the highest standards of health and public safety.
The UAE has utilised scientific innovation to consolidate its efforts to counter the pandemic, including by analysing the genome sequence of the virus, launching the largest lab in the world outside China to conduct coronavirus tests and established drive-through testing centres.