خلاصة:
The paper under review delineates the scenario, perspective and the future
trends of science –Driven Entrepreneurship in the Islamic world. It digs out
the factors causing the sluggishness and suggests the plan of action for the
renaissance of indigenous science –driven entrepreneurship with grafting of
the modern scientific high tech marketing techniques on it. The paper
highlights that entrepreneurship is both the cause and consequence of
economic growth, technological advancement and conceptual innovations
and they are interknitted, interconnected and interwoven with one-another.
The economic, political, social and religious components of the society
influence the science driven entrepreneurship in the Islamic World. It depicts
the present situation and flashes back on the glaring Islamic era when
Islamic Civilization was a beacon light and an icon scientific innovation,
technological advancement and an improved entrepreneurship of that time,
for the rest of the world. It was the time when almost the important seats of
scientific centers were filled with Muslim Scientists and the world was
hovered over with the lucrative Muslim trading networks. The paper
diagnoses the pitfalls that caused the Islamic World lagging behind and
provides food for the thoughts of scientists and experts pertaining to the
Entrepreneurship Research and Policy Networks, the world over. It points
out that all leading Muslim Scientists should have been more conscious and
committed to commercializing their scientific and technological productions.
It is high time for the Muslim Think Tank to synergize the efforts for the
promotion and development of scientific knowledge, technological
advancement and an improved entrepreneurship. The paper concludes by
suggesting a tetra-pod model for the social reengineering process to improve
the science driven entrepreneurship in the World of Islam.
ملخص الجهاز:
It depicts the present situation and flashes back on the glaring Islamic era when Islamic Civilization was a beacon light and an icon scientific innovation, technological advancement and an improved entrepreneurship of that time, for the rest of the world.
It is high time for the Muslim Think Tank to synergize the efforts for the promotion and development of scientific knowledge, technological advancement and an improved entrepreneurship.
Science, Entrepreneurship, Islam, History, Technology, Muslim Introduction Contextual Background Our holy prophet Muhammad displayed remarkable social, political, economic, and military ingenuity in securing the earliest conversions, moving with his co-religionists from Mecca to Medina to establish a basic state, and then defeating his pagan opposition.
“At the beginning of the 7" century after hegira, there occurred a series of dramatic and sudden events which crippled the progress of science and education in the Islamic world, and severely affected the course of Islamic civilization.
Such a conception and interpretation for centuries hindered the progress and advancement of science and technologies in the Islamic world; while the holy Quran stresses that, God will not change the destiny of a nation unless they try to do it themselves.
However, the developed countries, especially the western ones oppose the Islamic countries’ access to the new peaceful technology by putting obstacles on their course of progress.
4. The Islamic countries may devise a common philosophy or a “general framework” for the development of science, technology and entrepreneurship.