Category: Innovation
Interview with Mr Abdul Gaffar: Inventor of Breakthrough Colgate Total Ingredient
Mr. Abdul Gaffar’s four patents contributed to the discovery and success of Colgate Total–considered the most significant breakthrough for dental healthcare since flouride in the 1950′s. Interviewed by Doug Berger, Managing Partner, Innovate LLC. Posted January 23, 2007 Mr. Abdul Gaffar, who did his bachelor’s degree in chemistry/ bacteriology from the University of Karachi, Pakistan, [...]
Promoting Scientific Innovation in the Muslim World
Scientific and technological research and innovation is not among the qualities that one may attribute to the countries in the Muslim World. Having missed the dawn of scientific age due to reasons beyond the scope of this article, the 50-odd countries of the Islamic world cut a sorry figure when stacked against the modern and [...]
Seeking Innovation at the World Halal Forum – Kuala Lumpur
The first annual World Halal Forum was held in Kuala Lumpur between May 8th and 10th, 2006. As a part of Halal Malaysia Week (May 8 – 14), the World Halal Forum led into the third annual MIHAS or Malaysian International Halal Showcase. The idea of Halal Malaysia Week was coined as a nation-wide campaign [...]
Creating Economic Clusters in the Muslim World
In the 1980s and 1990s, Silicon Valley propelled the world into the computer and internet age and, in the process, captivated the world’s imagination as a model region for organizing economic and innovative activity. Since then, leaders around the world have tried to create economic clusters—their own versions of Silicon Valleys—around the world in an [...]
Fadi Ghandour: A Rare New-Economy Entrepreneur
For Fadi Ghandour, CEO and Founder of ARAMEX, it all started out as a simple idea – create a FedEx for the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region. Today that idea has not only been realized in the form of ARAMEX – now one of the most reputable express delivery and logistics brands in [...]
The Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC): Kuala Lumpur's Cradle of Innovation
Welcome to the new Silicon Valley. Twenty years in the making, and centered in and around Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) is fast becoming a new and exciting global center of innovation for information and communication technologies (ICT). From multi-nationals such as Silicon Graphics, IBM, Intel, Reuters to domestic companies such as [...]
