Workshop on entrepreneurial skills

Karachi:President, Mohammad Ali Jinnah University,(MAJU) Karachi Prof. Dr. Zubair Shaikh has said that our new generation is a product of Science and Information Technology (IT) age which has more capability of innovation in entrepreneurial activities.

He said that IT revolution has completely changed our world; now it is also called the age of transformation of technologies.

Addressing a Workshop on “Entrepreneurial Science; Serving Science and Society”, organized by MAJU Office of the Research, Innovation and Commercialization, (ORIC) in collaboration with Institute of Research Promotion, (IRP) Lahore, he told the students that for doing any business, you need a mindset and on the basis of your knowledge you may present new ideas for its successful running.

He asked them to form a team of talented persons before establishing a company, for this purpose MAJU assures any possible help to open their own incubator here.

Prof. Dr. Kamran Azim said that Research, Commercialization and Entrepreneurship are considered very popular subjects, and many universities have established research and commercialization centers for the benefit of the society.

He asked that research work may be translated in connect with product and to see how it may be utilize in the benefit of product. Dr. Assad Jahangir said that entrepreneurship should not be the economic development strategy of last resort because success in economic development strategies does not happen overnight.