Innovations

One of the problems, I usually face during my job interview is to speak my mind loud and clear without being boastful. Sometimes I struggle with giving a concise answer to the interview questions.  Besides, I am unsure, at times, how to share my accomplishments with the interviewers without bragging. …

In the contemporary global environment, borders between the public and private sector, academia and industry are fastly disappearing, giving way to a system of overlapping interaction and collaboration. Resultantly, new organizational structures and cultures are emerging in which industry; government and academia tend to integrate their mutual interests and align …

The partnership between universities and industries is believed to be a major collaborative effort on the part of the two distinct and diverging enterprises- academia and industry sharing their knowledge, skills set and resources in an effective and efficient manner for attaining mutually compatible goals of research, innovation and commercialization. …

At a time when the government has launched its flagship program, the “Digital Pakistan”, Prof Dr Qamarul Wahab, the Vice-Chancellor of the sole technology university, (i.e. University of Technology (UOT) Nowshera) has resigned from his office. This was propelled by both internal and external factors. The financial crisis at the …

The “Digital Pakistan” was launched recently. Well-done team, “Digital Pakistan”. Better late than never. The government deserves credit for the initiative. Since independence, this is the first project, that has the potential to revolutionize the entire dynamics of the socio-economic landscape of the country. It is the showtime, but we …

University-industry collaboration is one of the wildly used interactive best practices, a powerful tool for generating a favourable environment for technological innovations and enhancing global competitiveness, eventually, advancing the interests of the industry as well as academia across the globe. Nevertheless, academia and industry have miserably failed to realize the …

University-Industry linkage is critically important for the advancement of academia, growth of budding industries and development of national economies. This bourgeoning alliance is driven, mainly by educational, social, economic, scientific and technological forces. The public funding for higher education and research has dried up over the years, whereas, the forces …

University-industry linkage is considered as a major collaborative effort on the part of academia and industry, sharing their knowledge, skills and resources to accomplish mutually compatible goals of research, innovation, and commercialization. A variety of mechanisms for this interaction are prevalent in the developed countries for quite a long period …

Off late, a new debate has been triggered in the academic community at the national level in the country. This discourse is all about BS versus PhD programs. Some consider this as a debate about graduate-level education versus postgraduate level programs. To me this discussion is more about teaching vs. …

Theoretical underpinning, strong underlying support and sound justification are regarded as critically important for any research venture whether it is qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods study. Similarly, all PhD dissertations and research papers need to have a valid theoretical or conceptual framework to justify the standing and significance of the research …