There is way more then just link building for PR improvement, it is just one of the many factors used in the algorythm.
if you need PR, you will need to get it from a high Pr blogs so that you can get some juice from them and get you higher too. I see dofollow blog comment is the best way to get .
make links with high pr do-follow web-directories, social bookmarking, blog posting, blog comments, forum posting and submit articles to top article directories.
Yeah, but don't only aim the followed links. Coz that's not natural. And in a survey by SEO moz they found that most SEO thinks the same.
Do your site have an unique content? How often do you update it? Well PR requires an unique content and backlinks from quality relevant sites. If you can fulfill these condition then you may get a good PR in the search engine.