Haas group focused on creating collaboration between UC Berkeley, Silicon Valley and AMENA Region through intellectual exchanges, pro-bono consulting, and the publication of research. The AMENA Center seeks to: 1. Contribute to the narrowing of the economic development, gender, entrepreneurship, and innovation gaps in the AMENA region. 2. Provide human capital development, advance a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation, encourage the circulation of the brain-drain, and produce academically rigorous policy oriented research. 3. Help to increase productivity, fuel innovation, and add to the number of small and medium sized businesses, create knowledge based and high value added economies with companies and brands that can eventually compete on regional and global levels 4. Improve levels management, business, marketing, innovative, creative, and entrepreneurial skills on the part of the educated population in AMENA. 5. Equip AMENA region students with innovative thinking and creative problem-solving skills and imbue them with the skills local employees require. 6. Promoting a culture of viewing challenges as opportunities for generating ideas and their adoption into new products, processes, and services. 7. Conduct primary research with local experts on the socio-economic and environmental challenges besetting AMENA nations, and generate policy recommendations on their resolution. 8. Train and inspire future disruptive innovators. 9. Produce institutional change agents to upgrade the business environment by improving institutions, governance, and the rule of law.