Edison Innovation Services is an advisory and implementation firm linking governments, universities, and industry in emerging markets to the global innovation ecosystem — grounded in deep operational experience and a global network of technology and academic partners built over a short span of 2+ years.
the working circuit
Each works alone. Together they convert frontier capability into position that holds.
We diagnose and architect innovation ecosystems across national government, university, and private sector — from translational-layer diagnostics to governance and operating models.
The hardest problem in emerging markets is scaling beyond MVP. We resolve it through our network — direct access to top-tier accelerators, risk capital, and value-chain interventions.
We broker proven, commercially validated technologies from world-class enterprises and research institutions — localised and adapted to generate value in-country.
We help universities deliver globally recognised qualifications at home — TNE, dual, and joint degrees — with accreditation, quality assurance, and faculty development handled end-to-end.
We help institutions harness AI productively — from a structured readiness assessment to tailored, sovereignty-aware adoption models grounded in local industry context.
Across industry, government, and academic ecosystems — plus international linkage — wired into your system where each does the most.
Menlo Park was the first innovation system — a place engineered to turn raw ideas into working technology, on schedule. We work in that tradition: less interested in any single breakthrough than in the system that makes breakthroughs routine.
Every engagement runs the same arc — scan to accelerate — tailored to the ecosystem, never imported wholesale.
We map the full landscape — institutions, value chains, capital flows, regulatory gaps, and technology readiness.
Rigorous diagnostics expose the structural gaps and missing links, benchmarked against global best practice.
Bespoke interventions — frameworks, roadmaps, and operating models — anchored in international best practice.
We open the network: global accelerators, risk capital, technology partners, and leading universities.
Proven technologies and programmes localised, contextualised, and put to work in-country.
We build the capability to run it, then hand over a system that compounds without us.
A live read of the circuit — what's in motion, and what's been delivered.
A national gap analysis and policy review of STEM education in Pakistan, delivered for the British Council.
A transnational dual and joint-degree programme with UK universities — delivered for Abasyn University, Peshawar.
Developing an AI delivery hub for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — across AI Health, AI Agritech, AI EdTech, and an AI Academy — with a route into global green finance, for City University, Peshawar.
Co-designed vision and ecosystem for technology commercialization, science park, research, entrepreneurship, and investment — delivered for Quantum Valley (Pvt.) Ltd.
Edison Innovation Services is led by people who have built the institutions they now advise on.
A civil engineer, academic leader, and public servant. Imtiaz H. Gilani engineered mass-transit megaprojects in New York before serving twelve years as Vice-Chancellor of UET Peshawar — where he founded new campuses, research centres, and the university's Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization. A former provincial minister and acting Chairman of Pakistan's Higher Education Commission, he brings Edison Innovation Services a rare command of engineering, education, and policy — and a lifelong record of turning ideas into institutions.
A scholar of science, technology, and innovation policy at the Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (Institute for Manufacturing), University of Cambridge. His research spans the international comparative analysis of innovation systems — national, sectoral, and regional — and the diffusion of frontier technologies and the skills strategies behind their adoption.
An internationally recognised scientist in nanoscience and materials chemistry, with two decades of work on functional nanomaterials for catalysis, clean energy, and biomedicine. Professor of Chemistry at LUMS and founding project director of Pakistan's National Center for Nanoscience & Nanotechnology, he holds 185+ publications and a Charles Wallace Fellowship at the University of Cambridge.
A distinguished geneticist and pioneer of disease-gene discovery in consanguineous populations, with 160+ papers in journals including Nature Genetics and Cell Metabolism. A former Chairman of the Pakistan Science Foundation, he now serves as Dean of Life Sciences at the Health Services Academy.
Tell us what you're trying to move — a ministry, a market, a venture, a mandate — and where AI should fit. We'll show you where the current's blocked.