{
  "id": 16014713,
  "title": "Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City Free Zone in top 10 amid booming $73 billion startup landscape",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/abu-dhabis-masdar-city-free-zone-in-top-10-amid-booming-73-billion",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-22T06:33:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/uae/abu-dhabi/abu-dhabis-masdar-city-free-zone-in-top-10-amid-booming-73-billion-startup-landscape-1.500719380"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Abu Dhabi: Masdar City Free Zone has been named among the world’s top 10 freezones in fDi Intelligance’s Global Free Zones of the Year Awards 2026 by the Financial Times. The ranking comes as Abu Dhabi’s wider startup ecosystem continues to grow. The emirate entered Startup Genome’s global top 50 startup ecosystems for the first time in 2026, with the ecosystem valued at $73 billion. Home to over…",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}