INITIATIVE TO UPGRADE COMPETITIVENESS OF PAKISTANS ECONOMY

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INITIATIVE TO UPGRADE COMPETITIVENESS OF
PAKISTANS ECONOMY

• Arthur Bayhan
• Chief Executive Officer
• Competitiveness Support Fund (CSF)

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Operational Windows of the CSF
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Technical Assistance Window

• Prepare and publish an annual Pakistans
  Competitiveness Report

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Technical Assistance Window (2)

• Carry out a Policy Relevant Study to
• Sectors with competitive advantages and potential
  to grow
• Sectors do not have competitive advantage to grow
• Sectors do not exist but could be new generated

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Technical Assistance Window (3)

• Initiate a study on value chain analysis for one
  of the industries as pilot such as motorcycle
  industry
• Food processing Sector
• Fishery
• Automotive industry

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Technical Assistance Window (4)

• Increase public awareness of innovation and
  competitiveness by better preparing journalists
  improving communication across the sectors.
• Providing grants, not to exceed US25,000 each
  for innovative and/or research focused
  initiatives that may enhance the competitiveness

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THE CSF/HEC CO-OPERATION MATCHING GRANT FACILITY

• 20/80 grants for 10-12 industrial projects
• Funding for a broader spectrum of a number of
  sector-specific research projects
• Support of Centers of Excellence within key
  universities and research institutions
• Investigate the feasibility of holding a series
  of trade fairs to highlight the science and
  technology-based projects developed at
  universities. The aim of the fairs would be to
  attract private-sector representatives looking
  for innovative products and systems to
  commercialize.

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THE CSFS CO-OPERATION WITH THE HEC

• Joint workshops on on promoting industry-academia
  linkages in
• Lahore, Quetta, Karachi, Islamabad and Peshawar

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FINANCINGMatching Grant FacilityEligibility and
Application Criteria

• Projects that will benefit a cluster or a group
  of firms in an economic sector
• Confirmation of availability of the 50 of the
  total financing

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FINANCINGMatching Grant FacilityEligibility and
Application Criteria

• Participation of the stakeholders (Triple Helix)
• Potential to Improve product quality, create
  additional jobs, generate more income and
  increase export.

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FINANCINGMatching Grant FacilityEligibility and
Application Criteria

• The facility is set at 50 with a CSF
  contribution of a minimum US20,000 and maximum
  of US250,000.
• Provide technical experts necessary to improve
  the business capabilities of potential
  matchmaking grant recipients

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Business Incubator Concept
Incubator Set-up
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Incubator Operation
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