The high-tech startup industry in Pakistan is facing many challenges. Some of these challenges are because of government policies.
A case in point: we run a company, Aero Engine Craft Ltd, which is Pakistan’s first aerospace R&D startup that is developing environmentally safe contrail-free aircraft engines for the global aviation industry.
A deep-tech startup like ours needs infrastructure and it has to be grounded at a location. Unlike IT startups, they cannot relocate to the Silicon Valley in the acceleration phase. They need technical support from the tech ecosystem around them for innovative development.
In Pakistan, such clusters with huge capital-intensive, high-tech infrastructure reside within the government’s domain.