Building a Resilient Knowledge Economy in Pakistan
Raza Ahmad Khan
The author possesses diverse experience in corporate management, entrepreneurship, business incubation, university teaching, and technology transfer. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the USA with double masters’ degrees in Industrial Engineering and Manufacturing Systems Engineering with an emphasis on Engineering Management.
Under the present government of Prime Minister Imran Khan, we witness a much-desired emphasis on rejuvenating Pakistan through building a resilient knowledge-based economy!
In simple words, knowledge (k)-economy is a generation of wealth by exploiting intellectual capital (know-how)! Leading economies of the world have capitalized on this concept to progress their communities and earn invaluable foreign exchange. The STIPs (Science & Technology Industrial Parks) in China, as an example, had sales revenue and exports worth US$373 billion and US$88 billion respectivel