Who would have thought that the year 2019 would breath its last in the air of an imminent apocalypse! Amidst the exacerbating situation caused by COVID-19, the world had virtually come to a standstill with its people left waiting for a ‘Godot.’ Nonetheless, the virus had erupted in an era where science & technology would be the panacea of all ills, hence, collocating with unprecedented breakthroughs in the fields of Engineering, Genetics, Healthcare, Agriculture, Energy, Infrastructure, to name a few.
Where the onslaught of the pandemic posed a novel threat to the S&T-inspired day and age, and shrank the global economy by 4.4 per cent, it caused a stir in the developing world, including Pakistan, to re-orient themselves to survive the challenges of modern times. It called for laying out a more responsive and robust Science, Technology & Innovation(STI) policy framework to secure a safer tomorrow for posterity.
Ensuing meticulous deliberations by the experts, the new STI policy has been reformulated under the auspices of Ministry of Science & Technology, Pakistan. The contours of this policy articulately encompass the collective desire to transform Pakistan into a knowledge-based economy in true letter and spirit. It draws upon the consensus that the national R&D endeavours need not be confined to limited scope of theory and academia, and rather channelised to garner social dividends. The shortcomings of the past policies have been found in their...
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