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‘Research and development makes Lanka a knowledge hub

To make Sri Lanka a knowledge hub, it is necessary to produce knowledge in a much practical and effective manner LIRNEasia CEO, Dr. Rohan Samarajiva said. Speaking at a forum held recently organized by the Pathfinder Institution, he said to create a knowledge hub requires encouragement of research and development.


The total number of vessel arrivals to Sri Lanka during the past year has increased rapidly. The fast developments in the upcoming ports throughout the island will enhance the number of ship arrivals in the near future. Container handling at Colombo port at its peak now. Picture by Saliya Rupasinghe


Dr. Rohan Samarajiva

Therefore, private firms and universities have to play a vital role where the knowledge is produced by creative people in innovative organizations.

“Production of knowledge requires creative people. They must be attracted from all over the world and local experts should be encouraged and facilitated to become creative knowledge workers”.

A hub is not simply an agglomeration of companies that produce knowledge, but these companies must be well connected to each other as well as to other hubs in a global knowledge network.

Dr Samarajiva said according to the Kearney BPO ranking of last year, Sri Lanka has been ranked as the 16th while India takes the lead of becoming first. Philippines have been ranked as seventh.

Although Sri Lanka is ranked in the top 20 countries, the country still has many aspects which needs more improvement.

Sri Lanka should focus more on improving the skills of the people in the BPO sector as they need to compete with a large market like India. The skills has to be enhanced widely. Even if Sri Lanka is on par with financial attractiveness and business environment the country has still not fulfilled the gap of skillful people and availability of it, Dr. Samarajiva said.

To meet these challenges, we should expand the training centres and make our education system more practical where the pupils get a chance of applying them rather than learning as a theory only.

Sri Lanka has the prospects of becoming the hub port of the South Asian region. A hub is more than a collection of submarine and terrestrial fiber-optic cables, though they are necessary.

The number of vessel transits has grown from 14.28 percent to 18.03 percent during the period of 2004 to 2008.

The total number of vessel arrivals to Sri Lanka during the past years has increased rapidly. With the developments in the upcoming ports throughout the island will enhance the number of ship arrivals in the near future.

However, Sri Lanka still gets below 5,000 vessel arrivals per annum. We only get 30 percent of the vessels, which come to India.

Therefore, it is important to build a hub status and have a close connectivity between other countries,” he said.

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