The Business Incubation Centre (BIC) of the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) Lahore organized a two-day workshop on ‘Youth Enterprise Development’ at UVAS Veterinary Academy Lahore.
UVAS Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Masood Rabbani presided over the inaugural session of the workshop while guest speakers from Punjab University Adjunct Prof Dr Shahid A Zia, Founder Highly Keen Management Institute Mr Jibran Bashir, Director Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) Dr Farhan Jamil and number of participants were present.
Prof Dr Masood Rabbani speaking on the occasion said that UVAS have strong liaison with private sector and working closely with poultry industry.
He said seventy percent of poultry industries owners are graduated from UVAS. He said UVAS always providing many opportunities of entrepreneurship to encourage its students to start theirs own businesses. He urged students to focusing on value edition of poultry meat and dairy products as well as entrepreneur.
He also shared the success stories of UVAS alumni who are serving successfully in different national and international organisations of all over the world.
He said few years before entrepreneur course added in the curriculum of different degree program.
Dr Farhan Jamil spoke about the objectives of the workshop “Youth Enterprise Development” . He said in this workshop various aspects will be discussed related to entrepreneurship content, definitions, theoretical approaches, motivation and demographics, similarities and difference between entrepreneur and managers, implementation of business idea/business plan, market analysis & marketing strategy of startups and finance & accounting program of startups etc.