RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION IN REHABILITATION PAKISTAN

Authors

  • Dr. Zulfiqar Umrani Ziauddin University

Abstract

The ORIC Ziauddin University ensures that the quality of research meets international standards and ethics. The world is spinning around the data which leads to the strategies and ideas to be developed for genuine needs and development. Rehabilitation 2030 has targeted to reach out to the unmet need for rehabilitation in the health care system through building research capacity and promoting sturdy pieces of evidence for rehabilitation. Many research journals with the definite scope of rehabilitation has come into existence that involve the six domains of rehab sciences that is physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, orthotics and prosthetics, clinical psychology, vocational therapy . To meet the need of population the evidences are still very rare that emphasize the integration of rehabilitation in the health care system for the quality care.

The Higher education commission Pakistan has accentuated on research, innovation and commercialization (RIC) as an integral part of all universities to develop research, promote innovation and provide accessible services through commercialization that meet population need. RIC is the link between the academic laboratories and evidence based practice, ideas and inventions and research and industry. It is very crucial for rehabilitation students and practitioner to understand the role of RIC in order to reach out the end user, stakeholders and industry for not only the quality service but for the accessible facility in the health care system. The collaborative efforts of RIC will lead the rehabilitation sciences to the bench mark practices and accelerate the process of development by intensifying the scientific research, data building and innovation in the rehab field for the delivery of the services.

Published

2022-07-07

How to Cite

Umrani, D. Z. (2022). RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION IN REHABILITATION PAKISTAN. Pakistan Journal of Rehabilitation, 11(2), 01. Retrieved from http://ojs.zu.edu.pk/ojs/index.php/pjr/article/view/1936

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