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Qatar’s vision for innovation-driven knowledge economy and sustainable development has been the key motivation for its leadership to strategize and invest in the knowledge ecosystem. Although the outlook of knowledge infrastructure in Qatar, including national and international universities, research and incubation centers, science park, and technology transfer offices , resembles that of the United States, Singapore, and Norway, the country is yet to achieve the same level of excellence in terms of the outcomes. The primary reason for the lack of outputs is that the concept of economic transformation is still new for Qatar and its citizens, and since the overall system is at an infancy stage, some crucial elements of Industry-University-Government partnerships are missing at the execution level. We have already discussed the areas of concern for Qatar in the previous chapter in the light of the Global Innovation Index (Chap. 6), which include regulatory environment, research and development, market and business sophistication, and creativity. In order to learn the reasons behind these shortcomings–albeit the country’s commitment to transform to a knowledge-based economy–we conducted interviews and survey with the experts that have firsthand experience of working in the R&D and Industry-University-Government settings in Qatar. In the first part of this chapter, we present the findings of the interviews and survey while in the second part, we propose recommendations to make the knowledge ecosystem in Qatar more effective and efficient.
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The number corresponds to the sum of all questions. In reality, the respondents had to answer only those questions which were relevant to their sector. Roughly, there were around 38 questions which each respondent had to answer.
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All respondents did not answer all questions; there were some questions which were added after the interviews and therefore the response from 18 interviewees for those questions is not available. Also, some of the questions were more specific than the others, e.g., there were two questions which could be answered by only those who had experience in both national and international IUGP settings. Hence, the respondents with experience in only national or international IUGP settings could not answer these questions. We will specify the number of respondents for those questions which have different number of responses than the total number of responses, i.e., 92. Hereafter, whenever the number of respondents have not been noted, it implies n = 92 (all respondents answered the question).
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Probably, if the blue-collar workers, who are mainly in the country for the FIFA 2022 World Cup-related projects only, are not considered in the mix of population (Gulf Research Center 2017), the number of nationals would reflect similar to what has been observed in the survey.
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Out of the total number of respondents who answered the question, i.e., ‘n’, ‘i’ represent the number of respondents choosing a particular choice, which in this case is the ‘academic sector’ among all other sectors. As mentioned before, ‘n’ will be noted only if it is different than the total number of responses, i.e., 92; where ‘n’ is not specified, n = 92.
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For comprehensive definition of each industry classification, please visit https://www.msci.com/gics.
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1 = highly unsatisfactory; 2 = unsatisfactory; 3 = neutral; 4 = satisfactory; and 5 = highly satisfactory.
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Nawaz, W., Koç, M. (2020). A Survey on the Current Status and Future of IUGPs in Qatar: Challenges, Opportunities, and Recommendations . In: Industry, University and Government Partnerships for the Sustainable Development of Knowledge-Based Society. Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26799-5_7
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