Research
Exploring Digital Clusters - The Dubai Experience
New ‘digital geographies’ are emerging globally as technology and digitalisation change the nature of how and where we work and live. Nowhere are these changes more apparent than in Dubai, which has developed a reputation for the rapid adoption of new technologies and radically different approaches to city building.
Dubai’s economic growth has been built on creating clusters of similar businesses in a range of free trade zones, with the existing 26 free zones accounting for more than 30% of the Emirate’s economy. This traditional model is now being refined in the light of changing global trends, which will result in changes to the future pattern of clusters of economic activity across the city.