It addresses one of the most important difficulties facing creators in the Arab world

Expo Live .. "Yumn.com" .. a platform for presenting solutions, innovations and patents

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The Yomken.com platform aims to provide research and development services in a more efficient and cost-effective manner, through its own methodology of participatory innovation, for companies, government institutions, NGOs and others, to solve environmental, societal and industrial challenges.

The platform also provides a space for innovators to present solutions, innovations, projects, patents and market studies, to be linked with investors and those who wish to cooperate with them from various disciplines.

The platform that qualified for the “Expo Live” program of “Expo 2020 Dubai”, which supports projects that address the most pressing and most impactful issues in human life, was established in 2012 in Egypt and expanded in 2016 to launch in Tunisia, with a desire to provide its services to the entire Middle East region and Africa.

The platform says on its website, "Encouraging innovative activities by introducing new products or production processes or developing and modernizing the existing ones in the craft industry and small and micro companies in the Arab world, would increase the comparative advantage of these companies, especially compared to other competitors, and this will help alleviate poverty and combat youth unemployment, which in the Arab world has reached the highest rates.”

In addition, encouraging innovation in projects has become an urgent necessity, not only to create job opportunities for a more skilled generation, but also to save the already existing labor force and increase its contribution to the added value of the economy, which will reflect on the status of these projects and thus urge them to shift to the formal sector.

According to the platform, one of the most important difficulties facing innovation in the Arab world is the absence of a platform through which innovators can identify societal, environmental and industrial needs and challenges, in order to work on solving them and at the same time obtain the necessary funding and support through the market.

She says that it is "the only platform in the Arab world specialized in crowdsourcing ideas and solutions to industrial and societal challenges facing local and international companies, governmental and non-governmental institutions using the participatory innovation model," noting that the challenge is a specific problem and must be well-studied and have a solution that can Measure his success in solving the problem.

The platform explains that it “provides two basic services; The first of them is a platform for participatory innovation, or (open innovation), that serves local companies, governmental and non-governmental agencies, small and micro enterprises, low-tech, as well as civil associations. To overcome industrial, environmental and societal challenges, and these solutions and innovations aim to introduce new technologies and products to the market more efficiently,” noting that the process of linking the innovator with the challenger is fully consistent with the standards of transparency and protection of intellectual property rights.

The second service is “Market”, where innovators and creators can publish their innovative projects and patents as well as market studies, to be linked with financial institutions (for example: venture capital companies, crowdfunding platforms, etc.) to obtain the required support or investment, as well as Connect them with other collaborators and people with experience to help develop their projects.

The platform indicates that other services are represented in innovation management, innovation policies and consultations, project follow-up and evaluation, economic analysis at the micro, medium and macro levels, in addition to “idea generation” workshops for different clusters to identify potential links and gaps, and data analysis using social network analysis and econometric tools. and other advanced tools.

She says that she "is able to link between the societal challenges that the platform receives and the solutions that are developed in academic institutions and other innovation circles, through her experiences with different communities on the ground and through a diverse network of NGOs, student activities and microfinance institutions."

Over the past five years, participatory innovation has provided the market with more than 40 locally made and inexpensive innovations, including: a home groundwater filter, a long-staple Egyptian cotton picking machine, a solution to automatically sort vegetables using artificial intelligence, and a charger for mobile phones powered by a bicycle dynamo. And other inexpensive solutions.

The platform also contributes to encouraging many innovators to transform their ideas into feasible solutions, register them as patents and market them at the international level, noting that it received support from Expo Live, affiliated with Expo 2020 Dubai, to facilitate this expansion and provide funding for a number of One of the innovations that participate in solving the challenges presented by the institutions and community companies in Morocco and Jordan.

The platform says that it "does everything in its power to ensure that challenge owners and solution providers fulfill their promises, by providing incentives or rewards in installments conditional on the rate of completion of the work required to implement the solution by the innovator."

the problem

The high cost of innovation in Arab societies and its limitations.

The solution

An Arab electronic platform that exploits “crowd intelligence” to provide innovative solutions.

sector

- Information and Communication Technology.

the site

- Egypt.

the range

Egypt, Jordan, Morocco.