The CeyD, an innovative centre boasting an equally innovative organisation, will focus on a raft of groundbreaking areas to foster the economic and social development of the city. The CEyD is a pioneering centre because:

• It takes on responsibility for developing strategic management and tools of governance in order to increase the economic output and well-being of an entire city.
  
• It promotes new key factors of economic development and human progress in the cities of the knowledge or information/global age.