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WIPO Global Innovation Index Report 2022 – Part 6 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #738 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #738 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. These blog posts are based on WIPO – World Intellectual Property Rights Report on Global Innovation Index 2022. Photo Credit: Aa Dil Photo Credit: Ishay Botbol Photo Credit: Mumtahina Tanni In the last post of this series, we compare Pakistan with India and Bangladesh.                             PAKISTAN INDIA          BANGLADESH GII Rank             #87 #40         102 Population 225 million 1,393 166 GDP, PPP 1,157 billion USD 10,181 953 GDP per capita 5,447 USD 7,314 5,733 Income level Lower Middle LM

WIPO Global Innovation Index Report 2022 – Part 5 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #737 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #737 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. These blog posts are based on WIPO – World Intellectual Property Rights Report on Global Innovation Index 2022. Photo Credit: Ali Pazani Photo Credit: Google Images Photo Credit: Google Images These two posts are dedicated for Pakistan. Comparison with nearby countries shall follow later. PAKISTAN - II GII Rank #87 – Population 225 million – GDP, PPP 1,157 billion USD – GDP per capita 5,447 USD – Income level, Lower Middle. Out of 132 countries included in this report, Pakistan stood in the second quartile from the base. It means that Pakistan is very low on the

WIPO Global Innovation Index Report 2022 – Part 4 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #736 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #736 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. These blog posts are based on WIPO – World Intellectual Property Rights Report on Global Innovation Index 2022. Photo Credit: Ali Madad Sakhirani Photo Credit: Assad Tanoli Photo Credit: RODNAE Production These two posts will be dedicated for Pakistan. Comparison with nearby countries shall follow later. PAKISTAN GII Rank #87 – Population 225 million – GDP, PPP 1,157 billion USD – GDP per capita 5,447 USD – Income level, Lower Middle. Out of 132 countries included in this report, Pakistan stood in the second quartile from the base. It means that Pakistan is very

WIPO Global Innovation Index Report 2022 – Part 3 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #735 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #735 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. These blog posts are based on WIPO – World Intellectual Property Rights Report on Global Innovation Index 2022. Photo Credit: Cottonbro Studios Photo Credit: Craig Adderley There is no point in comparing with the top 6 countries because the disparity is too great. However, the finding may be looked at to understand the relationship between various pillars.  For better understanding, I shall take the top 6 countries and 9 countries below rank #30. Pakistan is included and shall be compared with likewise countries. Finally, Pakistan shall be focused upon singly. P

WIPO Global Innovation Index Report 2022 – Part 2 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #734 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #734 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. These blog posts are based on WIPO – World Intellectual Property Rights Report on Global Innovation Index 2022. Photo Credit: Vanessa Loring Photo Credit: Pavel Danilyuk As mentioned in the previous post, GII represents analysis of 132 economies. It is a comprehensive report covering all factors impacting innovation. We can understand that innovation does not happen in isolation. Yes, there may be individual achievements, but to convert these into impactful innovations is a complex process. The world is littered with innovations which were great ideas, but these

WIPO Global Innovation Index Report 2022 – Part 1 – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #733 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #733 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Photo Credit: Pavel Danilyuk These blogposts are based on WIPO – World Intellectual Property Rights Report on Global Innovation Index 2022. During June of this year, I had presented findings from the Global Talent Competitive Index Report 2022 and showed in detail where did Pakistan stand among nations and among countries of the region. It was a series comprising of ten posts. The purpose was that we could understand the grimness of our situation and take some actions for improvement. The governments are not always the best place to

Performance Appraisal in Pakistan – The Not-So-Right Things – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #732 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #732 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Andrea Piacquadio Photo Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Photo Credit: Sora Shimazaki We may start by saying that not all companies are run by the book anywhere in the world. It is not about the size of the company; it is about the thinking of the management, and it may be influenced by the industry in which they operate. Countries where application of laws is lax also display laxity in practices. Pakistan has gradually gone from good to bad to worse, and the slide continues. The two major deficits we are facing are legitimacy and authenticity

Performance Appraisal in Pakistan – The Right Things – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #731 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #731 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Mart Production Photo Credit: Sora Shimazaki I started job in a well-known multinational pharmaceutical company and kept working with MNCs till 1998. I switched to a well-known local corporate in 1999 and have continued with the local industry since then. I have therefore seen both the worlds, up close and in detail. It is true that the MNCs were/are years ahead in their concepts and practices. The learning from MNCs has been constantly trickling towards local pharma as people trained over there keep switching to local industry. Some of the loca

Performance Appraisal Systems – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #730 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #730 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on  WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. Photo Credit: Anna Shvets Photo Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Goal setting and Performance Measurement must be as old as the civilization, though these may not have been recognized as such. It is attributed that performance appraisal practices probably date back to the third century when the emperors of the Wei Dynasty (221 – 265AD) in China used defined methods to rate the performance of state officials. The performance during agriculture age could not be measured properly due to divine factors like rain and sun which played critical roles. With the advent of industrialization, the