For this episode we sit down with Dr.Ayman Ismail, the founding director of AUC Venture Lab, Professor of Entrepreneurship at AUC and one of the most prominent and active people in the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Egypt. We talk about the extent of economic development in Egypt and the role that small and medium enterprises  play in that respect, as well as what these SMEs need in order to reach the next step of their development in order to further increase economic development on a larger scale.