The 7^th Arab Technology business plan competition was held in 2011, it was announced in 17th May 2011. About 241 participants joined the competition representing 12 Arab Countries, they are: Egypt (35 business plans), Palestine (7 business plans), Lebanon (5 business plans), Jordon (4 business plans), Bahrain (3 business plans), Syria (3 business plans), Yemen (3 business plans), Saudi Arabia (2 business plans), Tunisia (2 business plans), Iraq (one business plan), Morocco (one business plan), Qatar (one business plan), besides Arab participants from foreign countries, like: France (one business plan), Italy (one business plan), USA (one business plan).

The submitted Projects in the 7th Arab technology business plan competition covered:
• Information Technology services.
• Communication.
• Semiconductors and Electronics.
• Medical.
• Pharmaceutical.
• Biotechnology
• Water and Desalination.
• Energy.
• Environment

7^th Arab Technology business plan competition Time phases:
1^st Round: 
• The business plan Competition Announced.
• Deadline date for applying the business plan Competition Applications and executive summary.
• Announcement of the 1st Round Winners.

2^nd Round: 
• Launching E-learning course – chat rooms.
• Closing e-learning course.
• Receiving the business plan draft.
• Announcing the winners in the 2nd stage.

3^rd Round: 
• Training Program for Participants in Egypt.
• Training Program for Participants in Bahrain.
• Receiving the final business plan and presentations.

4^th round:
• Announcing the top 10 winners.
• Launching the virtual fair on competition’s website (23 August).
• Announcing the Top 3 winners.
• Top winners traveling to attend Intel - UC Berkeley, for entrepreneur challenge.

Top 10 winners in 7th Arab Technology Business Plan Competition:
• NanoDx business plan, Egypt.
• ODBoards business plan, Yemen.
• RT-Project business plan, KSA.
• Presto wireless business plan, Jordon & Egypt.
• TCloud business plan, Egypt.
• CCII business plan, Tunisia.
• Dental technology business plan, Tunisia.
• TTB business plan, Egypt.
• Smell sound system business plan, Iraq & Jordon.

The judging Panel of 7th Arab Technology business plan competition:
• Dr. Yasser M. Fahmy (Egypt)
• Mr. Afifi Barhoumi (Bahrain)
• Mr. Ameer Hassan (Sudan)
• Mr. Osama Alkhaja (Bahrain)
• Eng. Khaled Adas (Intel – KSA)

The Top winners in the 7^th Arab Technology Business Plan Competition:
1^st place: NanoDx business plan, Egypt.
2^nd place: Herbatica business plan, Lebanon.
3^rd place: ODBoards business plan, Yemen.
4^th place: RT-Project business plan, Saudi Arabia &Lebanon.

Also NanoDx business Plan win the 3rd place in Intel – UC Berekely entrepreneur challenge.

The 5^th Arab technology Business plan Competition took place in 2009, the business plan competition was announced through different media channels like: the local partners in the Arab countries, ASTF data base, ASTF Cairo office Data Base, all Arab Universities and organizations, and through Arab and Egyptian newspapers and Egyptian T.V programs.
The 5th Version of Arab technology business plan competition received much more success than the 4th version, as the no. of the applicants to the business plan competition increased and became 79 applicants presented 14 Countries: Egypt (37 projects), Palestine (12 projects), Syria (9projects), Jordon (6projects), Iraq (3 projects), Yemen (3 projects), UAE(2 projects), Kuwait (1project), Libya (1 project), morocco (1project), Saudi(1project), Also there were 3 arab applicants from foreign countries like: Malaysia, Spain and Canada.

The submitted Projects in the 5^th Arab technology business plan competition covered:
• Information & Communication Technology field.
• Electronics and electrical instruments field.
• Transportations field.
• Scientific and Medical Field

5^th Arab Technology business plan competition’s Time phases:
1^st Round: 
• The business plan Competition Announced (14 May, 2009).
• Deadline date for applying the business plan Competition Applications (10 July, 2009).
• Announcement of the 1st Round Winners (20 July, 2009).

2^nd Round: 
• Training Program for Participants in Egypt (7th - 9th august).
• Training Program for Participants in Bahrain (16th - 20th August 2009).

3^rd Round (The Finals): 
• The deadline for applying Business Plans and presentations. (10th Sept. 2009).
• The Competition Finals and Awards Ceremony (21thOct. 2009).
• Top 2 Teams Joined Intel + UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge in USA (17-19 November 2009).

Arab Technology Business Plan Competition Training programs:
In light of ASTF Cairo office’s responsibility in managing Arab technology business plan competition, ASTF Cairo office organized training program for 25 applicants from Egypt and it held in the Egyptian federation building for 3 days, also ASTF Cairo office cooperated with UNIDO- Bahrain Entrepreneurship and technology promotion Office (ITPO) to conduct the Entrepreneurship and enterprise training workshop at (16-20 August 2009) in Bahrain for the Technology Business Plan Competition participants who wanted to attend this training program.

5^th Arab technology business plan competition’s Participant list:

• The first business plan name was “Aqarmap”, it was submitted from Yemen and it was a startup idea for Online Real Estate market.
• “Telephone Line Power lamp” it was the second participant in the 5th Arab business plan competition, and aimed to Solving Problem of Electricity cut-off, the project was submitted from Palestine.
• The business plan “EDOM” was submitted from Jordan to enhance the Green Technology Solutions field.
• “Human Heater” another business plan submitted from Jordan and it presented new product for human warming.
• A start up business plan idea was submitted from United Arab Emirates for new medicine for cancer, the business plan named by “Therapeutic Vaccines”.
• “Novel Med” was Egyptian business plan for Innovative Medical device.
• In a way for assisting the disabled people to control computer systems, a business plan was submitted from Palestine, it called “Eye Controlled Typing”.
• “Collapse Analysis” was Egyptian business plan submitted for New Computer Application for Collapse Analysis.
• “Wi-phone” business plan was submitted from Egyptian team which presented Telephone line and WIFI Adapter.
• “Blue Soft/Blue Phone” was business plan name for Egyptian team; this startup idea was about avoiding railways accidents.
• “HFF” business plan submitted from Egypt, and it was about Hydrogen Fuel Device.

The judging panel in 5th Arab Technology Business plan Competition Finals:
The final round in the Arab technology business plan competition organized in Marriot Hotel on 21th of October in Cairo, Egypt.

The Judging Panel was:
• Mr. Ahmed Gomaa CEO for Ideavelopers (Egypt).
• Mr. Afif Barhoumi Investor and Promotion Expert for UNIDO (Bahrain).
• Mr. Walid Bakr Consultant in Ryada Venture (Jordan).
• Mr. Gasser Sultan Investor and Director for Nile Capital (Egypt).
• Mr. Samir El-Bahaie Strategic marketing Manager for Intel (Egypt).

The winners:
• 1st place for “Novel Med” business plan.
• 2nd place for “Therapeutic Vaccines” business plan.
• 3rd place for “Collapse Analysis” business plan.
• 4th place for “EDOM” business plan.
• 5th place for “Aqarmap” business plan.

The 6^th version of Arab technology business plan competition took place in 2010, the announcement of the 6thTBPC started on 16 July 2010, about 15 countries participated in the 6th Arab business plan competition and about 155 business plan was submitted, as following: Egypt (53 business plans), Palestine (25 business plans), Syria (7 business plans), Ksa (7 business plans), Iraq (5business plans), Yemen (4 business plans), Canada (business plans), Jordon (2 business plans), Lebanon (2 business plans), United Arab Emirates (2business plans), Algeria (1 business plan), Bahrain (1 business plan), Libya (1 business plan), Also there are 2 business plans submitted for foreign countries (India & Switzerland).

The Fields the covered in the 6^th Arab technology business plan competitions:
• Information & Communication Technology
• Electronics and electrical instruments
• Transportations
• materials science 
• Medical and Health care
• e-commerce

The Time phases of 6^th Arab technology business plan competition:

1^st Round: 
• Applying the Competition Applications and Executive Summaries (June 2010).
• Deadline for Applying the Applications and Executive Summaries (July 2010).
• Announcement of the 1st Round Winners (August 2010).

2^nd Round: 
• Training Program for Participants Started (August 2010).
• Deadline for applying Business Plans and presentations (September 2010).
• The Announcement of the top Winners in the Scientific Research (September 2010).

3^rd Round: 
• Deadline for applying Business Plans and presentations (November 2010).

4^th Round: 
• Top Teams Joined Intel + UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge in USA (Nov.2010).

The Finals:
9 business plans reached the final stage; these business plans represented 6 Arab countries: Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Palestine. 

The winners in the 6th Arab Technology business plan Competition:
1^st place: went to Saudi project for generating electricity from solar energy.
2^nd place: went to Emirates project converting the solid waste to electrical energy and hot water.
3^rd place: went to Egyptian project which is a social chat software more flexible during work and study.

The final ceremony was held at Bahrain in cooperation with UNIDO and under the patronage of the Kuwait finance house at Bahrain, the winners went to the UC Berkeley competition (Nov.2010).

The 4^th Arab technology Business plan Competition was held in 2008, The Business competition received business plans from the local partners and the competition winners.
The competition was promoted through different media means and about 62 business plans was submitted to present 12 Arab Countries as the following: Egypt (38 projects), Jordon (7 projects), Morocco (5 projects), Lebanon (5 projects), Syria (3 projects), Palestine (2 projects), Sudan (1 project), United Arab emirates (1 project).

The technological Projects in 4th Arab technology business plan competition covered the following fields:
• Information & Communication Technology
• Electronics and electrical instruments
• Transportations
• Medical and Health care
• E-commerce

4^th Arab Technology Business plan Competition Time plan was:

1^st Round: 
• Applying the applications and Executive Summaries (June 22, 2008).
• Deadline for Applying the Competition Applications (July 22, 2008).
• Announcement of the 1st Round Winners (August 06, 2008).

2^nd Round: 
• Training Program for Participants Started (August 31, 2008).
• Deadline for applying Business Plans and presentations (September 15, 2008).
• Presentation for judging panels and Announcement of the top Winners (27-28 October 2008).

3^rd Round: 
• Deadline for applying Business Plans and presentations (18-20 November 2008).

4^th Round: 
• Top Teams Joined Intel + UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge in USA (Monday, January 15, 2009).
• The top Winners joined meetings with Venture Capital, Angel funds and investors (April 2009).

Arab technology business plan Competition’s Training program (2^nd round):
Due to ASTF Cairo office’s responsibility to manage the “Arab Technology Business Plan Competition, ASTF Cairo office cooperated with UNIDO- Bahrain Entrepreneurship and technology promotion office (ITPO) to conduct the Entrepreneurship and enterprise training workshop for 4 days in Bahrain for the Technology Business Plan Competition participants.
Bahrain training program was one of the successful and professional training programs in the Arab Region as it was a part of very successful model called "The Bahrain- Arab Model” that aimed to develop the capacities of potential entrepreneurs in order to boost their capabilities and assist them in developing their own private businesses.

The Goals of the Bahrain Training program was:
• Giving assessment training for entrepreneurs needed skills and capabilities and how to improve personal capabilities.
• Providing training about business planning and venture creation.
• Providing the participant after the training and/ or within the training "One on one business coaching and advising" where the expert can directly provide comments and advises for the entrepreneurs on his/her business plan.
• Providing matching services for funding specially with the Bahrain Development Bank, which provides some funding mechanisms majorly based on joint venturing also providing business advisory and consultancy services to the entrepreneurs.

The Semi-finals of 4th Arab Technology Business plan competition:

There were 11 semi Final participant members from different countries:
• Mohamed Imad Droubi for "Atraumatic Expanders" Business plan (syria).
• Elham El-Zanati for "Membrane-based water desalination system" business plan (Egypt).
• fath elrahman for "fathelrahman" business plan (Sudan).
• Attallah Joseph Attallah for "GIS/GPS tracking and monitoring systems" business plan (Egypt).
• BOUCHRIT YASSINE for "CHINNOVA" business plan (Morocco).
• Islam Badr el-Dein for "GlucoseMon" business plan (Egypt).
• Ahmed Abdelaziz for "C-CAP" business plan (Egypt).
• Ahmed Elazab for "wireless Soln" business plan (Egypt).
• Omar Cherkaoui for "Virtuor.com" business plan (canada).
• Ahmed Moussa for "LIVIT Haptikos" business plan (Egypt).
• Saeed Ghali for "Innovative Technique for Production Ferrosilicon Magnesium Alloy" businss plan (Egypt).

The Judging panel for 4^th Arab Technology business plan Competition:
• Prof. Adel Tweissi: Chairman for Al-Hassan Science city (Jordon).
• Mr. Afif Barhoumi: Investor Promotion Expert at UNIDO (Bahrain).
• Prof. Fathi H. Ghorbe: Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science in Rice University (Morocco).
• Mr. Mustapha Mezghani: Senior Partner 2CW,Tunisia (Tunisia).
• Dr. Nibal Idlebi: Team Leader in ICT for Development at UN-ESCWA (Lebanon).
• Dr. Samir El-Bahaie: Strategic marketing Manager at Intel (Egypt).
• Dr. Samir Aguenaou: Assistant Professor of Finance at Al-Akhawayn University (Palestine).

The Top 5 Winners in Arab Technology Business Plan Competition University Category :
1^st place: Ahmed Abd Elaziz for "C-CAP" business plan in the Pharmaceutical field (Egypt).
2^nd place: Omar Cherkaoui for "Virtuor" businss plan in Networking field (Morocco).
3^rd place: Mohamad Imad Droubi for "Atraumatic Expanders" business plan in the Dentistry field (Syria).
4^th place: Bouchrit Yassine for "chinnova" business plan in Home application-Hinge (Morocco).
5^th place: Islam Badr el-Dein for "GlucoseMon" business plan in the field of Medical Device (Egypt).

Winners in Arab Technology Business Plan Competition Seed-Stage Category :

1^st place: Hussein AL-Natsheh for " CIAppel" Business Plan.