Jul

13

NovaTechX Punjab Med-Tech Partnerships

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As part of its ongoing mission to scale innovation in Pakistan’s Med-Tech landscape, NovaTechX embarked on a strategic outreach trip across Lahore and Islamabad in April – May 2025. The primary goal was to strengthen the organization’s presence in Punjab by engaging key academic institutions and healthcare stakeholders for potential partnerships across its Quest and Accelerate programs, RFP development initiatives and collaborations.

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Jul

3

Core Competence: J-79, Kelly Johnson and PAF

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by Imran H. Khan

Core technologies and capabilities that drive the economies take a long time, large amounts of money and even bigger patience to bear fruit. But once they mature, the rewards are well worth the effort.  Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers” makes a similar case for outstanding achievers, that it is more of their earlier start than their brains that make them excel. It is sustained practice of ones art or profession that over the period of time blossoms into an unsurpassed  ability.  Developing countries typically try to shy away from making investments in longer gestation technologies and therefore commit themselves to the path of perpetually playing catchup with developed countries. This is a story of a jet engine that propelled Air Forces possessing it into an unrivaled position. Read more