Govt gives priority to promote entrepreneurship: Razak Dawood

LAHORE, Mar 30 (APP):Adviser to the Prime Minister on Commerce, Textile, Industry & Production and Investment, Abdul Razak Dawood Saturday said that the government was giving priority to innovation and promotion of entrepreneurship in the country.

He was addressing the ‘Applied Entrepreneurship- Think & Grow
International Conference’ organised by the Pakistan Industrial
Technical Assistance Centre (PITAC) here.

Razak Dawood said that Prime Minister Imran Khan was also
keen to encourage entrepreneurship and appropriated steps
taken in that regard.

He said the country needed more entrepreneurs to enhance business activities. Giving an example, he said China and the United States (US) had become great nations due to massive contributions of entrepreneurs.

The advisor emphasised that young entrepreneurs should
adopt a long-term strategy to be successful in their respective
fields instead of looking for overnight success.
He said an entrepreneur should have a proper vision as it
was linked with success while failure was also a part of
the process. One should not loose hope and be optimistic
as failure also gave chances and lessons to rise, he added.

Later, talking to the media persons, he said that the country’s economy was moving towards a right direction, however, more efforts were needed for further improvement.

He congratulated the PITAC for organising the successful
event.

Director General PITAC Muhammad Irfan Zaheer, Advisor
PITAC, Dr Hussnain Javed, Senator Waleed Iqbal and others
also spoke.