ISLAMABAD: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) will hold a mega event next month to develop linkages between academia and industry enabling the students to bring their research work into practice. The innovation and creative work of the researchers will help them to seek entrepreneurship in the relevant industry.
The students from the AIOU and other universities have been invited to take part in this career-making activity. This will be line with the university’s efforts commercialising and marketing the research-based projects, said Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Shahid Siddiqui while addressing the concluding session of five-day pre-expo training workshop. The university is going to follow China’s model promoting students’ entrepreneurship so as to enable the youth create earning opportunities through creativity and innovation. China has made a major breakthrough in recent years in empowering the youth through entrepreneurship.
Announcing the university’s plan to implement this model that was also practiced by other countries, Dr Siddiqui said this expo will also serve as ‘start-up’ for the students to undertake their own small-scale business.
