About The National Competitiveness Center (NCC)
NCC mission: To support the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s competitiveness agenda through objective, data-driven advice on regulatory reform and sector improvement opportunities that will contribute to increasing, sustainable prosperity for the people of Saudi Arabia.
The National Competitiveness Center was established by SAGIA in 2006 as a body to monitor, assess, and support competitiveness enhancement in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The NCC fulfills this role in three ways:
It serves as a think-tank for change by conducting and developing competitive assessments and monitoring the implementation and results of change programs. These programs focus on two main areas: improving the ease of doing business in the Kingdom, through spurring modernization of the general business environment; and improving the microeconomic fundamentals of competitiveness, through mobilizing development of world-class clusters. A recent example of the NCC’s work is its role in eliminating the minimum capital requirement. The NCC prepared the business case that advocated for this change, which was passed by Royal Decree on July 17, 2007.
The NCC works as a facilitator of change by creating forums for discussion between the public and private sectors. It is currently supporting the creation of Cluster Advisory Councils that bring together private and public stakeholders in key clusters to identify and collaborate on competitiveness improvement initiatives.
Finally, it acts as a communicator for change, sharing the results of the Kingdom’s ongoing competitiveness efforts through such channels as The Competitiveness Review.
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