A leading university of Chinese Traditional Medicine (CTC) in Changsha, Hunan province, has decided to name its new research centre after Pakistan’s known scientist and academician Prof Dr Attaur-Rahman .
Institute of Space technology (IST), hosted a delegation of 80 guests including faculty and students from the member countries of Belt and Road Aerospace Innovation Alliance (BRAIA) like China, UK, Austria, Turkey, Malaysia and Pakistan. IST is amongst the founding members of BRAIA, established on April 23, 2017 in Xi’an, China.
Fawad Chaudhry, Federal Minister of Science and Technology, has addressed that an International Sci-Tech Conference entitled Think Future 2019 will be held in Islamabad on the 17th of October. Moreover, multiple prominent figures are invited to attend the conference such as Malala Yousafzai, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk.
I would like to raise two questions before discussing the Intellectual Property (IP) Culture in Pakistan as 1) why industrial revolution started in UK whereas there were many other civilizations in the world at the time and 2) why USA left behind old civilizations, leapfrogged in S&T and led in technology fronts consistently for many decades.
Lahore, Pakistan (CNN): When the Jinnah Burn & Reconstructive Surgery Center at Jinnah Hospital in the Pakistani city of Lahore treats victims of acid attacks, it has to use imported skin that costs at least $900 per square inch — a prohibitive cost for the victims of this type of attack who are usually poor, female and vulnerable.
Six startups from Pakistan will be taking part in the 11th Startup Turkey 2019 . The companies include Therapism, Authentik, Franchise Pakistan, Turbo Anchor, Yotimez and Dukanlay. 100 startups from 65 countries will come together at Uniq Istanbul between 26th and 29th of April for the event. More than 130,000 startups applied for the contest this year.
Excitement for my upcoming trip to Pakistan the main reason for my sleeplessness. I checked my passport and Pakistani VISA again and again, every day and night, to believe that travelling to Pakistan was becoming a reality.
The current Prime Minister of Pakistan (2019) is found believing religiously in the power of science and technology. We can predict from his statements, claims, and conduct about the third surge of the science of technology based politics or technopolitics in Pakistan .
Pakistan is the 6th largest country in the world and ideally to be ranked among the top ten countries of the world in GDP, exports, innovation and per capita income which force us to have a charter of innovation for Pakistan .
NUST has got the approval to initiate working on its latest project, which is “ National Science and Technology Park ”. Public-Private Partnership Authority’s (PPPA) Board approved the project. PPPA granted the approval for the tech park at the first board meeting under the chairmanship of Minister for Planning, Development & Reforms Khusro Bakhtyar.
