Taking stock of the entrepreneurial ecosystem

The month of November is often the most pleasant month to live in Lebanon. The weather is nice, the mood is relaxed (with no holiday shopping stress yet), prices are in low-season mode to invite visitors and National Day is around the corner. It is the perfect month to celebrate entrepreneurship as the most promising new force in our economy. One could even say that we are witnessing the early years in a new Lebanese history, which began with the birth of the entrepreneurship ecosystem four or five years ago. This era, which was born in stages with events such as the opening of the Beirut Digital District in September 2012 and with the all-important issuing of Banque du Liban’s Circular 331 in August 2013, is now progressing from infancy into childhood. We are already in year five of a new calendar, and as with every growing child it is