Diffusion trajectories of emerging sciences in Malaysian R&D system

In the last two decades, Malaysia has demonstrated significant economic progress and achieved an impressive growth performance in manufacturing exports as a result of its industrial development policies. In order to achieve higher-value-added sector, Research and Development (R&D) activities are...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Wong, Chan-Yuan, Thirucelvam, K., Ratnavelu, K.
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier 2010
Subjects:	H Social Sciences (General) Q Science (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.um.edu.my/12513/

id	um-12513
recordtype	eprints
spelling	um-125132015-01-30T03:04:47Z Diffusion trajectories of emerging sciences in Malaysian R&D system Wong, Chan-Yuan Thirucelvam, K. Ratnavelu, K. H Social Sciences (General) Q Science (General) In the last two decades, Malaysia has demonstrated significant economic progress and achieved an impressive growth performance in manufacturing exports as a result of its industrial development policies. In order to achieve higher-value-added sector, Research and Development (R&D) activities are necessary. Since the introduction of the first national science and technology policy (1986-1987) and Industrial Technology Development: a National Plan of Action (1990-2001), the Malaysian government has been committed to develop and building up competencies in learning to advance its R&D activities. This paper aims to analyze the trend of scientific production in Malaysia to indicate some characteristics of its R&D system. Logistic growth function is developed to model the growth trajectories of the selected sciences. A time-series of projection of selected technologies is made through logistic curves. In addition, Thailand and Singapore (a country with advanced diffusion of sciences), are included for comparison. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Elsevier 2010 Article PeerReviewed Wong, Chan-Yuan; Thirucelvam, K.; Ratnavelu, K. (2010) Diffusion trajectories of emerging sciences in Malaysian R&D system. Technological Forecasting and Social Change <http://eprints.um.edu.my/view/publication/Technological_Forecasting_and_Social_Change.html>, 77 (7). pp. 1109-1125. http://eprints.um.edu.my/12513/
repository_type	Digital Repository
institution_category	Local University
institution	University Malaya
building	UM Research Repository
collection	Online Access
topic	H Social Sciences (General) Q Science (General)
spellingShingle	H Social Sciences (General) Q Science (General) Wong, Chan-Yuan Thirucelvam, K. Ratnavelu, K. Diffusion trajectories of emerging sciences in Malaysian R&D system
description	In the last two decades, Malaysia has demonstrated significant economic progress and achieved an impressive growth performance in manufacturing exports as a result of its industrial development policies. In order to achieve higher-value-added sector, Research and Development (R&D) activities are necessary. Since the introduction of the first national science and technology policy (1986-1987) and Industrial Technology Development: a National Plan of Action (1990-2001), the Malaysian government has been committed to develop and building up competencies in learning to advance its R&D activities. This paper aims to analyze the trend of scientific production in Malaysia to indicate some characteristics of its R&D system. Logistic growth function is developed to model the growth trajectories of the selected sciences. A time-series of projection of selected technologies is made through logistic curves. In addition, Thailand and Singapore (a country with advanced diffusion of sciences), are included for comparison. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
format	Article
author	Wong, Chan-Yuan Thirucelvam, K. Ratnavelu, K.
author_facet	Wong, Chan-Yuan Thirucelvam, K. Ratnavelu, K.
author_sort	Wong, Chan-Yuan
title	Diffusion trajectories of emerging sciences in Malaysian R&D system
title_short	Diffusion trajectories of emerging sciences in Malaysian R&D system
title_full	Diffusion trajectories of emerging sciences in Malaysian R&D system
title_fullStr	Diffusion trajectories of emerging sciences in Malaysian R&D system
title_full_unstemmed	Diffusion trajectories of emerging sciences in Malaysian R&D system
title_sort	diffusion trajectories of emerging sciences in malaysian r&d system
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2010
url	http://eprints.um.edu.my/12513/
first_indexed	2018-09-06T06:06:55Z
last_indexed	2018-09-06T06:06:55Z
_version_	1610837147297775616

Diffusion trajectories of emerging sciences in Malaysian R&D system

Similar Items