Abu Dhabi · Free zone
Masdar
Masdar City Free Zone
The honest read
What it is actually good at.
Clean technology, renewables and energy-transition businesses, co-located with IRENA's headquarters and Khalifa University's research base. The cluster is small enough that being in it is genuinely useful.
Who is actually based here
Clean technology firms, renewable energy developers, sustainability consultancies and research operations.
What it costs
Free zone package pricing with offices, labs and co-working, positioned competitively to attract the sector.
How banks receive it
Fine. The tenant profile is corporate and research-led.
Commonly licensed here
- Emirate
- Abu Dhabi
- Type
- Free zone
- Location
- Masdar City
- Established
- 2008
- Licence issuance
- 3–5 weeks
- Residence visas
- By leased area
- Ownership
- 100% foreign
- Premises
- Offices, labs, co-working
Timelines, quotas and package contents are indicative and change without notice. We confirm every one against the current schedule before you commit to anything.
Premises
Where the office actually goes.
Masdar is a place as much as a registry. The licence and the postcode come together: take space here and you are inside the jurisdiction, with everything that implies for rent, for who your neighbours are, and for how a client reads your address.
A planned low-carbon district near the airport, built around IRENA's headquarters and Khalifa University's research base. What Masdar itself offers by way of premises: Offices, labs, co-working.
- District
- Masdar City, Abu Dhabi
- Typical rent
- Free zone package pricing with offices, labs and co-working
- Licence type there
- Free zone
Questions
Clean technology, renewables, sustainability and related research and consultancy. The licensing committee assesses genuine sector fit.
For energy transition startups the cluster is small enough that being in it is genuinely useful — you will meet the other tenants.
Near Zayed International Airport in Abu Dhabi, built around IRENA's headquarters and Khalifa University's research base.