The Atlas of Islamic-World Science and Innovation (AIWSI) has seven major aims:

• To map key trends and trajectories in science and technology-based innovation across the OIC Member Countries, and combine quantitative data with qualitative analysis gathered through interviews, workshops and other in-country fieldwork;
• To look in detail at a geographically and economically diverse sample of fifteen OIC countries, and offer an independent and authoritative assessment of how their innovation capabilities are changing, and the opportunities and barriers to further progress;
• To explore how relationships between science, technology, innovation, faith, culture and politics are unfolding within these sixteen countries, and across the wider Islamic world;
• To identify new opportunities for collaboration between scientists, policymakers, the private sector and non-government sector in the Islamic world and Europe, particularly directed towards shared global challenges of climate change, poverty reduction and sustainability;
• To make developments in science, technology and innovation more visible across the OIC and to the wider world, and to produce a series of agenda-setting articles, publications and events which spark scientific, policy and media discussions and debates in the Islamic world, Europe and beyond;
• To build the skills and capacity of science and innovation analysts and decision-makers across the Islamic world, and create new networks for the exchange of ideas, policies and good practice both within the Islamic world, and between the Islamic world and Europe;
• To make the status of S&T commercialization opportunities more visible within OIC countries and the rest of the world, with the aim to attract S&T-focused investments to OIC member states, and to identify opportunities for matching the supply and demand sides of S&T, and joint S&T research and development programs, with the aim to promote integration among OIC countries.