Innovators 2K16 B2B meeting & Business Clinic for SMEs and start-ups held at ICCI under UNIDO/GCIP Pakistan Programme
Al-Bab Report
Islamabad (24-10-2016): A business clinic was held by UNIDO in collaboration with Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry for providing training to SMEs and start-up businesses who have been declared as semi-finalists under Global Cleantech Innovation Program (GCIP) Call for Awards 2016.
The GEF funded initiative was part of a three years Global Cleantech Innovation Program (GCIP), currently running in ten countries including Pakistan and is aimed at developing a sustainable entrepreneurship ecosystem by supporting clean technology innovations in SMEs and start-up businesses so that they could maximize opportunities for achieving sustainable commercial success, in the third cycle of this competition Pakistan got the highest number of applications among all other countries which shows the potential and talent in clean technology of Pakistan.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Shahina Waheed, National Programme Coordinator, Global Cleantech Innovation Programme said, I am very hopeful that today’s Business Clinic must have been very helpful in improving your worksheets of Cleantech, which are imperative not only for this competition but will also equip these aspiring entrepreneurs much needed knowledge and information to help in their entrepreneurship venture.
Also she offered her commendations to the Semi Finalist teams, and further elaborated that for UNIDO, all of those teams who have qualified for Semifinalist stage are winners and we will keep providing different services to them like trainings, incubation service and others. And I am hopeful that this Cleantech Programme will help them a lot in accelerating their business and will take their Cleantech idea to new heights.
She thanked participating teams and also the management of Islamabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the arrangement of this event and said that she is hopeful that in future UNIDO and ICCI would do many projects together for the development and support of businesses.
At this business clinic, renowned business mentor Mr. Tauseef Zaman, technical mentor from NPO; Mr. Aftab Khan, the other technical mentor from PCRET Mr. Nadeem Zakir were also there to guide the participating teams. All the teams got their business plan vetted from business and technical point of view by these mentors and vowed to work hard to bring a Cleantech revolution in Pakistan thereby creating more job opportunities and lesser carbon emissions.
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