Member of the Board of Directors of the Qatar
International Center for Conciliation and Control

Overview of Dr. Thani
Ben Ali Al Thani and his
previous experience.

-He is the founder of “Thani Bin Ali Al-Thani Law
Firm” for the legal profession, legal consulting,
and arbitration.
-Doctorate in Commercial Law from the Faculty
of Law at Cairo University.
-Member of the Court of Arbitration of the
International Chamber of Commerce of Paris
representing Qatar.
-Member of the Board of Directors for
International Relations of the Qatar
International Centre for Conciliation and
Arbitration.
-Member of the Board of Directors of the
Commercial Arbitration Centre of the Gulf
Cooperation Council States.
-Chairman of the Corporate Community
Responsibility Committee-Orient House.
International arbitrator accredited to many
arbitration centers.-
-He has books in law.
-He Participated in numerous conferences and
specialized legal courses in civil, commercial
and criminal law.
He participated in numerous specialized legal
seminars and meetings.
He is a mediator accredited by the International
Court of Qatar.

Dr. Thani’s main goals for 2021 and beyond.
It is the interest in artificial intelligence technology, which attracts
the most new investments in the world, because it improves
the performance and productivity of organizations through the
processes or tasks they perform, which in the past required a lot
of manpower, time and mental effort. Artificial intelligence can
also understand data on a large scale that no one can achieve.
Such capacity can bring significant benefits to business.
The challenges that both developing and developed countries’
innovation and entrepreneurship systems face
• One of the most important challenges to progress in the
innovation index for developing countries is the volume of
expenditure on research and development. Since the index for
developing countries is modest compared to international or
developed country indicators.
• It has to find solutions to challenges in society or in government
institutions through the Smart Solutions Programmer.
• Accordingly, the challenges faced by the decision makers in the
Arab States of the Gulf Cooperation Council lie in four main areas:
• 1-Low percentage of spending on research and development
compared to developing countries.
• 2-Weak relationship between development issues and advanced
technological infrastructure.
• 3-Council States are regarded as consumers, not producers, of
information technology.
• 4-Low creativity and innovation at work in most higher education
departments and Gulf research centers.
• The Opportunities exist for both the innovation and
entrepreneurialsystems in developing and developed countries
• 1-Enabling educational and academic innovation: that is,
increasing research and innovation capacity and developing
higher education policies towards entrepreneurial education.
• 2-Enabling community innovation and development: Support
adaptation to sustainable development by fostering SMEs and
accelerating the management and transformation of knowledge
into development products and services.
• 3-Enabling individual innovation: Transforming creative ideas
into competitive products in the market and creating jobs for
innovators by marketing their innovative products to achieve
development.
• 4-Enabling technical and professional innovation: Training
environments with professional cadres, upgrading of local
industry, and marketing of goods.
• 5-Enabling industrial innovation: Developing industries based
on innovation, increased production, and a genuine partnership
between the academic and industry sectors.
• 6-Enabling academic innovation and entrepreneurship: Create
a catalytic environment for innovation by providing business
incubators, scientific laboratories, and workshops for all creative
ideas and transforming them into innovative services, systems,
and products.
The best strategies for innovation that have been implemented
to benefit from the upgrading of state classifications
• National innovation strategies have become one of the most
important tools capable of creating, developing and managing
the economic engine tightly and effectively. This is to achieve
sustainable development and a high profile among the
countries of the world. Its adoption is one of the most prominent
components of the modern state and the nerve of its life to
enable and encourage creativity and innovation at the national,
regional, and international levels.
• Accordingly, successful strategies are based on four main pillars:
• 1-Institutional and community integration, focusing on
enabling effective communication and cooperation between
relevant actors so as to achieve horizontal and vertical synergy
between policy makers and decision makers on the one hand,
and productive, supportive, and innovative institutions on the
other hand.
• 2-The second pillar is human capital, which has the primary
responsibility for empowering individuals at all levels and sectors
through the development of public education, higher education,
research, development, and the labor market.
• 3-The third pillar is one of the supporting and possible pillars
of the innovation environment: the intellectual property
and knowledge-marketing pillar, which seeks to strengthen
the knowledge society, implement an effective intellectual
property rights protection system, and stimulate the production
of innovative ideas, goods, and services at the national and
international levels.
• 4-The fourth pillar is the engine of sustainable social and
economic development, and it is the pillar of innovation-led
economic diversification aimed at creating jobs, producing
technology, promoting small and medium-sized enterprises,
and attracting foreign direct investment in all sectors relevant
to each state’s economy.
The road map for economic and future growth and diversification
• 1-Human resources development and individual capacity
development to keep pace with technical development:
• Bridging the gap between educational output and the labor
market and offering study programs on modern technological
applications and artificial intelligence.

• 2-Creating a stable macroeconomic climate and
conditions for economic diversification:
• Overcoming challenges in achieving economic
diversification policies such as the contribution of nonoil sectors in our Arab countries to national income.
Also, the effective contribution of the private sector to
development.
• 3-Promoting an effective and competitive private
sector:
• Creating an enabling economic climate in
which individual initiatives grow, the active and
competitive role of the private sector is strengthened,
and tools, means, and systems are developed.
• 4-Preserving the national gains of each state
The need to continue to preserve national gains and to
sustain the natural resources of each state.
Future recommendations
Each Arab state should focus on adopting a package of
distinctive initiatives capable of generating economic
value, transferring knowledge, providing an enabling
environment for continuous development, monitoring
new challenges and opportunities, and building national
and global partnerships in research, development, and
innovation to meet their needs.
In line with the proactive approach adopted by our Arab
nation, it is imperative to continue to provide adequate
support to small and medium-sized enterprises and to
strengthen the flexible economy of the State in order
to continue its growth and its ability to innovate and
stimulate its business opportunities.
Indeed, the GCC States had developed ambitious
strategies for the development of the research and
innovation system, which was concerned with the
development of effective ideas, so that each country
could become a vital and effective center for research
and innovation in the world.
.Promoting and enabling the mindset of innovation
Building on the mindsets and culture of innovation is the
yardstick of corporate success, and innovation-in itself-is
a collective process highlighted by the importance of
staff collaboration in companies or other organizations
in an effort to generate new ideas and ways of operating.
The advantage of building innovation networks is to shift
from focusing on individual creativity or intelligence to
benefiting from communication, experience and combined knowledge.
Networks have the potential to generate a cycle of innovation. The key
here is to ensure that there is sufficient diversity of thinking, knowledge
and experience to ensure convergence across ideas.
Finally, it creates opportunities that encourage all to participate and
contribute. Innovation requires diversity of thought, which requires input
from a variety of sources both internally and externally. In this diversity
of contribution, new ideas and paths are explored and companies
advanced by it.
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