Background
Entrepreneurship is globally considered as promoting opportunities, innovation and competition in the BRICS economy , small and medium size enterprisers are the backbone of Pakistan economy adding over30% to GDP .Despite of growing entrepreneurial trend and freelancing among Pakistani occupational therapist, the profession strives for registration at National database and healthcare commission.
Aim
It aims to highlight the growing entrepreneurial trend and freelancing among Pakistani OT for recognition and regulation strategies by healthcare commission and national database authority.
Methodology
It was a survey based study involving 600 practicing OT, a structured questionnaire based on the concept provided by Anthony Abando et al was used for data collection.
The google questionnaire consists of queries on working years, company registration, annual revenue, staff count, business education , practice domain and entrepreneurship challenges .
The result showed 50% self-employed generating 3 million per annum,10 % successful entrepreneurs with staff count 2 to 47 generating revenue 5 million to 40 million per annum. 3% are registered, the rest are self-employed. 99 % is pediatric domain and established only in two provinces. Majority entrepreneurs had no formal training thus lacked a business model,strategies and SOPs.
Conclusion
It is concluded that the unregistered business has made the profession anonymous in the economy of the country and its impact on the GDP is unknown, whereas the future of entrepreneurship is promising in occupational therapy and may become powerful influencer of change in the service business for community health and wellness if the basic knowledge is included in the undergraduate programs