The document outlines 5 ideas to innovate Pakistan. It discusses how innovation has transformed history and driven global prosperity through successive industrial waves. However, innovation also disrupts through technological unemployment. The document advocates for Pakistan to become producers of technology rather than just consumers to generate higher-paying jobs. It promotes startups as the building blocks of the emerging economy and stresses the need to develop lifelong learning skills. The government is urged to develop Pakistan's innovation ecosystem through incentives, funding, and skills development to support startups.

1. Five Ideas to
Innovate
Pakistan!
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2. out of your head and impacts society
Innovation
happens when
an idea comes
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3. Innovations have transformed
the very rhythms of history
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4. Driven by accelerating innovation, Global
GNP surged to over $50 trillion over the last
200 years, after being negligible for the rest
of history
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5. Innovation
drives
prosperity,
but also
disrupts
Idea
One
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6. 1st Industrial Wave: The
Steam engine
shortened trade routes,
boosted prosperity
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2nd Industrial Wave:
Electricity lit up the
night and powered
machines
3rd Industrial Wave: IT
increased productivity
across sectors

7. Now, young lawyers in USA finding it harder to
get jobs as Artificial Intelligence (AI) does legal
research better. Pakistani hospitals considering
AI diagnostics.
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8. Indian textile
manufacturer,
Raymond, is
replacing 10,000
employees with
robots
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COMPETITIVENESS
EMPLOYMENT

9. The next innovation wave is
the 4th Industrial Revolution,
comprising cyber-physical-
digital tech
Idea
Two
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10. Become producers of tech, not just
consumers.
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Workers earn Rs 150,000 a month on higher
value added tasks, rather than Rs. 15,000 as
domestic servants or day laborers.

11. Startups fail,
people don’t
Because each Startup
failure is an
opportunity to learn
and grow.
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Over the last two decades, the organizational structure
that has innovated is the Startup. It combines a long
term scaling plan, tech development, market knowledge,
and agile execution with risk taking. It is distinct from a
small business, which supports life styles.

12. Tech companies have surged over the last
two decades to become the most valuable
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13. Startups are
the building
blocks of the
emerging
economy
Idea
Three
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14. “We cannot afford to just learn, we
must learn to learn”
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The pace of change is so high that you have to make
sense of entirely new situations. Most of what you learn in
college will be obsolete by the time you graduate. Most of
the jobs of the next generation are not even invented yet!
- TONY MURPHY, GARTNER,
PAKISTAN IT INDUSTRY REPORT

15. Power skills, that empower
you, like Creativity,
Communications, Risk Taking,
Initiative underlay any
technical skills like Data
science, Cyber security and AI
support
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16. The Future
of Work will
be very
different
Idea
Four
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17. Innovation does not
happen in a vacuum.
It needs a mindset,
skills, organizations,
legal structures,
funding, demand
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18. Government after
government has provided
incentives, contracts,
funding, IP, incubators,
skills development for
Startups
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19. The Government
has a role in
developing the
innovation
ecosystem
Idea
Five
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