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The Middle East’s Growth Moment: Beyond Oil, Toward Tech

Publisher Frost & Sullivan
Published Nov 17, 2025
Length 52 Pages
SKU # MC20580610

Description

The Middle East is undergoing a profound technology transformation, driven by ambitious government visions, economic diversification agendas, and a surge in digital adoption across key industries. This Frost & Sullivan analysis explores the digital transformation landscape of the Middle East, with a particular focus on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies. The region’s information and communication technology (ICT) boom is being propelled by ambitious government diversification agendas, hyperscaler investments in sovereign and regional cloud infrastructure, and national strategies to attract global talent. At the same time, a vibrant start-up ecosystem, backed by venture capital, sovereign wealth funds, and regulatory sandboxes, is accelerating innovation in fintech, healthtech, logistics, and beyond. However, macroeconomic volatility, geopolitical uncertainty, and uneven talent supply remain critical challenges. This analysis draws on macroeconomic trends, cloud infrastructure buildouts, talent strategies, and start-up momentum to examine the foundations of ICT growth in the GCC, examining whether growth is organic, sustainable, and durable.

Table of Contents

52 Pages
Growth Opportunities: Research Scope
Framing the Middle East’s ICT Growth Story: What is Covered and Why it Matters
Strategic Imperatives
Why is it Increasingly Difficult to Grow?
The Strategic Imperative 8
The Impact of the Top 3 Strategic Imperatives on the Middle East ICT Industry
The Middle East Growth Environment & Digital Momentum
Middle East Growth Environment
Drivers: Fueling Digital Transformation in the Region
Restraints: What Could Derail Momentum?
GCC Macroeconomic Landscape
GCC Economic Outlook and Implications for ICT Spending
GCC: Economic Outlook
GCC: Regional Comparison
GCC: Risk Landscape, 2025–2026
Rising Disposable Incomes
Big Bets and Bold Buildouts: Hyperscaler Expansion Across the Middle East
Mapping the Middle East Cloud Infrastructure Buildout
The Shift: Remote Cloud to Regional Stakes
Organic Demand Driving Regional Cloud Growth
Enabling Environment Fuels Hyperscale Investment
Talent as the Enabler and Constraint
The Talent Imperative for Hypergrowth Economies
National Strategies for Talent Attraction and Retention
GCC Start-Ups and Innovation Ecosystems
MENA Start-Up Investment & Deal Flow by Country
Accelerating Funding Momentum in 2025
Interpreting MENA’s Outsized Debt Financing Share
MENA Vertical Leaders and Country Dynamics
MENA’s Start-Up Maturity Curve: Progress, Gaps, and the Road Ahead
Signals, Risks, and What Sustains the Boom
Risks
The GCC ICT Growth Engine
Looking Ahead
Growth Opportunity Universe
Growth Opportunity 1: Smart City Platforms & Citizen Services
Growth Opportunity 2: Sovereign & AI-Ready Cloud Infrastructure
Growth Opportunity 3: Vertical-Specific Digital Transformation Solutions
Next Steps
Benefits and Impacts of Growth Opportunities
Next Steps
List of Exhibits
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