Mr. Talib Karim, President IoBM shared with CPEC think-tank to focus on how should our human resource and concerned industries benefit from CPEC as it has good promise and potential for our economy, for our economic corridor and for building highways to benefit SMEs all along.
The Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) at the Institute of Business Management (IoBM) organized a Seminar on “CPEC: Challenges for SMEs” in collaboration with Small and Medium Enterprise Development Authority (SMEDA) on Tuesday, November 27, 2018 at the Entrepreneurship and Management Excellence Center (EMEC), IoBM. Present on this occasion were IoBM’s Mr. Talib Karim, President, Dr. Ejaz Ahmed, Rector, Dr. Syed Irfan Hyder, Dean CBM and CES, Dr. Amanat Ali Jalbani, Advisor to President and HoD, Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) and Office of Graduate Studies (OGS), Mr. Muhammad Tariq, Coordinator and Assistant Manager, ORIC. It was well-attended by IoBM faculty, MPhil and PhD students.
Invited as resource persons to this Seminar were Mr. Mashood Ali Khan, Chairman, Skill Development Centre, Dr. Manzoor Isran, Professor of Management Sciences, SZABIST Karachi and Mr. Mukesh Kumar, who has attended training programs in USA, Europe, Far East and Australia and has written research reports on venture capitalism, entrepreneurship and SMEs.
The objective of this Seminar was to discuss Industry Perspective of CPEC, Challenges for Small and Medium Enterprises and Future Perspective of CPEC. As China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is opening attractive avenues for investment emerging from economic cooperation between Pakistan and China many projects have entered their realization phase. A number of projects are being developed on fast-track as part of the Early Harvest Projects with multiple business opportunities across the value chains of industry set to open up.
