Mohammad launches global innovation award

Mohammad launches global innovation award
WAM Published: September 28, 2007, 00:00

Dubai: In another historic global initiative, His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has given directives to institute an international award titled the Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Innovation.

The award aims to acknowledge excellent innovative solutions for problems on a global level, to reward the originators of these solutions and to encourage the adoption of these modalities in a way that the changes brought about by them will lead to the improvement of efficiency and competence in governance.

Shaikh Mohammad reiterated his keenness that the award will not only acknowledge the best innovative practices around the world, but also will propagate the culture of such practices among all sections of society.

Higher standards

He stressed the importance of setting up a work environment and the need for each person to concentrate on continuous innovation in a quest for the best. This, he said, will pave the way for attaining higher standards in performance and achievement.

Shaikh Mohammad said the award and the global benefits it brings will be in tune with his vision which focuses on improvement of social and economic conditions for all humanity.

The proposal for setting up an award for innovation was presented to Shaikh Mohammad by Jawhar Rizvi of Harvard University, Minister of State for Financial and Industrial Affairs, Mohammad Khalfan Bin Kharbash and Minister of Education Dr Hanif Hassan.