At the moment, Pakistan is low on global competitiveness rankings yet the positive turn-out of the economy over last years signal a strong potential to raise the same. This has been reflected well by improvement in Business Competitive Rankings.
Recently, CSF has published “The State of Pakistan’s Competitiveness 2007” using the World Economic Forum (WEF) publications [...]
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The State of Pakistan’s Competitiveness 2007 by CSF
Posted in Competitiveness, Pakistan on April 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
National Innovation System of Pakistan
Posted in Pakistan on March 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
National Innovation Systems (NIS) (Christopher Freeman, 1987) is becoming an old and well worked out concept now. Other levels and types of systems of innovation include (From a presentation by Lundvall , 2005):
Transnational innovation systems (Cantwell)
Regional innovation systems (Phil Cooke)
Local innovation systems – industrial clusters (Michael Porter)
Sectoral innovation systems (Franco Malerba)
Corporate innovation systems (Ove Granstrand)
Technological [...]
"Let’s avoid risk!"; Program Implementation & not Policies only are the culprit
Posted in Pakistan, Technology Policy on March 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
How have we reached this sorry state? Although there is no use crying over the spilt milk but wise are those who learn from failures of past. It is not that there were not people who had not identified, prioritized and designed good policies and programs in all sectors, it is that these were not [...]
Prioritizing Science and Technology
Posted in Pakistan, Science in Islamic World on March 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Here, I refer to one of the articles “Prioritizing Science and Technology (http://www.chowk.com/show_article.cgi?aid=00003523&channel=university%20ave) by Omer Cheema during June 2004 quoting some basic statistics about the sorry state of science and technology in Pakistan. I agree to the title and follow-up discussion that getting our priorities right is the most important task.
HEC has taken up a [...]
Technology-Based Industrial Vision and Strategy for Pakistan’s Socio-Econmic Development (Draft, 2005)
Posted in Pakistan, Science in Islamic World on March 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
An excerpt from the subject publication’s introduction(pp. xxviii) by Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman elaborates the premise for sustained socio-economic development in today’s world. You can get the whole 318 pages document at: http://www.hec.gov.pk/htmls/about_hec/Technology%20Based%20Vision.pdf.
“New knowledge, particularly knowledge related to technology, drives the economic systems. Economic agents, including firms and governments, are forced to adapt to technical change in [...]
