Out of the box

Investment strategies and opportunities

Ismail Al Hammadi

July 13, 2021

By 2025, the number of creative and cultural companies and institutions in Dubai will reach 15,000 companies and institutions, instead of the current 8,300 institutions, according to the Dubai Creative Economy Strategy, and the number of jobs will double to 140,000 jobs, instead of 70,000 jobs currently.

The Food Technology Valley project also aims to triple Dubai's food production, and attract about 100 specialized companies in its early stages, which means doubling the number of agricultural institutions and companies specialized in food technology and agricultural research, and the number of jobs in this field.

Between the agricultural sector and the creative sector, there are about 15,100 institutions and companies expected to enter the market in Dubai. This is what we see on the surface, but in fact 15,100 institutions and companies mean weakness, and more than investment opportunities.. How is that?

Most of us view strategies as plans and goals that have their own dimensions, but in fact they are opportunities. Each of the steps included in these strategies carries with it a set of investment opportunities, not related to the sector in which they were proposed, but also to other sectors.

In the creative sector, for example, 15,000 institutions mean how many square feet of office space?

How many housing units do the owners of these institutions, employees and their families need?

In the industrial and food sectors, how many areas of industrial and agricultural land will be exploited by investors?

How many square feet of warehouse space, labor accommodation, and employee housing units will be occupied?

At a time when the new institutions and companies that will enter the labor market in the future according to these strategies, or in general, are enumerated, and at the time when the expected financial results from those strategies, and the performance level of the sectors that directly affect them, are created with them, new opportunities for investment are created in an unfair way. Direct, other parties benefit from it in other fields and sectors.

For example, but not limited to, the rental sector will benefit, the hospitality sector will benefit, the shopping and trade sector will benefit, in addition to the health, education and travel sector.

Even in a small percentage, most economic sectors and vital areas will have a share of the benefits produced by the set of goals planned to be achieved in accordance with those strategies and plans.

This is not all. Micro, small and medium enterprises will have a share of the results of these strategies to enhance their activities and presence in the market.

Young people who dream of establishing their own projects and businesses, strategies will give them an opportunity to do so. They may be indirect and unclear opportunities, or they may be small opportunities, but they remain investment opportunities that must be exploited to enter the world of entrepreneurship.

The national strategy for industry and advanced technology aims to support the establishment of 13,500 companies and small and medium enterprises, to achieve self-sufficiency in vital industries.

• «Strategies carry with them investment opportunities that are not only related to the sector in which they were proposed, but also extend to other sectors».

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