All Answers: Re: [pakgrid] About Siachen Disaster

I fully agrees with Ashiq Anjum, we end up in discussion, how to devide 1% of GDP which is already low.

Applied Research is deriven by Industry, it's industrial funding partner who decide what should be patent.

Ishtiaq

On Tuesday, April 24, 2012, Ashiq Anjum wrote:

What percentage of resources are you spending on basic research? Pakistan is one of the lowest ranked countries in the world in terms on spending on basic research.

And more importantly, who has stopped the decision makers/common people/engineers in investing time and resources for innovation? Only less than one percent resources (people, money) are being spent on basic research. Where do the remaining 99 percent of the resources go and why cannot this be channelled out for innovation? This is a weak argument that we can not innovate due to spending in basic research.

Without basic research, you may successfully copy things but cannot innovate. Look at the percentage of the patents applications that were filed without a well thought out research plan and you will notice that most applications will be turned down. Only those people managed to get some success (in terms of patents) who graduated (phds) from good universities and then spent few years in R&D environments. I am happy to be proved wrong.

Low spending on basic research is impeding the innovation and not the vice versa. Indian/Chinese succeeded because they spent billions to train their human resources, who then progressed in rank and file and conquered the enterprise world with their talent. This talent helped them to win projects and appreciation and now reverse brain drain is happening. We should encourage HEC and Govt to spend as much as they can on talent development and only then mass scale innovation will be possible.

Best regards
Ashiq Anjum

--- In pakgrid@yahoogroups.com, mansoor malik <manmalik@...> wrote:
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> I think we should hit the nail first. Every body appears to be hitting the ground only. We have to first decide the balance between APPLIED RESEARCH and BASIC RESEARCH. Pakistan has been unfortunate to have most of its S&T leaders from the scientific community instead of a mix from Sciences, Engineering and Technology and therefore the sacrosanct word IMPACT FACTOR has always prevailed. Lets bury this once and for all and start encouraging our researchers to file PATENTS, COPY RIGHTS, DESIGN RIGHTS etc.
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> No research should be encouraged in Pakistan for the next ten years which does not generate an IPR (Intellectual Property Right) as well as an END USER in sight. The impact factor should be weighed 100 times less than an accepted Patent or other IPRs' to bring a semblance of balance between APPLIED RESEARCH and BASIC RESEARCH. This is the only way to do something worthwhile for our country as ENGINEERS. It is embarrassing to see the Technical Tools being used to recover our brothers and sons who are buried under the snow in Siachen. Our Disaster Management Organizations need to concentrate less on Five Wheelers and lavish Office Spaces and start building the capacities of Technical Tooling procurement instead.
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> To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
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> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 22:55:41 +0500
> Subject: Re: [pakgrid] About Siachen Disaster
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> Assalam o Alaikum,
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> HEC may play effective regulatory role to keep research on track to achieve national objectives. Following may be considered in this regard;
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> b) Research may be regulated by the board/authority (associated with HEC), having representatives from academia, industry, and government
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> (Thanks Dr. SMJR for good ideas)
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> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Usman Rafique rafiqusman@... wrote:
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> Seemingly these are foreign entities. Why research on disasters mitigation and response is not done in Pakistan? Where environmental disasters of every kind is a norm than exception? If someone claim they have done something or doing something why they don't come to surface when the need comes?
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> Are right kind of people inducted in research? The universities administration don't have a clue how to help society in meaningful way? What is the source of failure? Institutional failure is also a norm in Pakistan. Is failure of universities related to (same causes) failure of other institutions in the country? Is it so that all good brains already gone to west and only garbage is left behind?
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> To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
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> Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:49:42 +0100
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> Subject: [pakgrid] About Siachen Disaster
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> Following are two groups that are working on probabilistic modeling of risks arising from avalanche and other natural hazards.
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> One can download interesting presentations from their website, too. If one is interested in some of their wrok, please, leet me know.
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> Any way, it is time to start working on ''Risk-based decision making'' on engineering and natural systems.
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> Von: Syeda Umema Hani umema_hani@...
> An: "pakgrid@yahoogroups.com" pakgrid@yahoogroups.com; Usman Rafique rafiqusman@...
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> Gesendet: 10:42 Mittwoch, 18.April 2012
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> Nice email brother ! I hope our high fi universities could make some effort in utilizing their research work in real life insahAllah.
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> Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department, www.ssuet.edu.pk,
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> PhD (Software Engineering) fellow, GSESIT, www.hamdard.edu.pk,
> www.ssuet.edu.pk/~suhani, suhani@..., ++92-21-111994994(STI department)
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> From: Usman Rafique rafiqusman@...
> To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
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> Sent: Tuesday, 17 April 2012, 23:11
> Subject: [pakgrid] About Siachen Disaster
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> I wonder what technologies could have been used to save lives of soldiers of Giari Sector in Siachin. How far our society and specially universities will have to go to get into the position to help the nation in the time of need?
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> This time is gone but how in future we can develop capacity (proactively) to take swift action to be able to help society in such citicial events? It is useless to expect national level stuff from private universities as they are busy
> counting cash, so all hope is from public sector universities that they come ahead and demonstrate their impact on society.
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