Dubai Science Park is one of the ten districts for which the Dubai Development Authority (DDA) issues licences under its Decision No. 1 of 2021, and one of the ten districts TECOM Group calls its own — two lists of ten that do not coincide. A DDA licence opens the door to life sciences activity but confers no right either to sell medicines and medical devices or to treat patients: the product layer belongs to the federal Emirates Drug Establishment (EDE), and patient-facing services to the Dubai Health Authority (DHA). All three licences run in parallel, and none substitutes for another.
