The Islamic economy: untapped opportunity for entrepreneurs?

The second edition of the Global Islamic Economy Summit was an opportunity for stakeholders to collaborate and progress the Islamic economy, which isgrowing faster than ever before.

The summit, held in Dubai on 5-6 October, showed that many sectors of the Islamic economy are still local.

“Halal food manufacturers focus primarily on their local market or on adjacent countries,” said Adil Mustapha, acting head of Islamic Finance at Thomson Reuters. “They are not able to expand their market for several reasons, mainly because of the lack of synergy between the different sectors.”