The era of globalisation requires small medium enterprises ('SME') in Malaysia to be aware of the importance of intellectual property awareness to sustain their businesses at an international platform

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia lack awareness of intellectual property and how that relates to the sustainability of their business. In this paper a discussion on recognized intellectual property (IP) rights, legislations applicable to those rights, enforcement in Malaysia, and the...

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Main Authors: Anthony Das, Cecilia, Abdul Rani, Nazatul, Yahya, Azhar
Other Authors: none
Format: Conference Paper
Published: School of Business, Curtin University of Technology, Sarawak, Campus, Malaysia 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27340
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description Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia lack awareness of intellectual property and how that relates to the sustainability of their business. In this paper a discussion on recognized intellectual property (IP) rights, legislations applicable to those rights, enforcement in Malaysia, and the benefit of complying with the IP laws and/or regulations is to be considered. It is forwarded that awareness of intellectual property rights would assist the SMEs to better position itself in a business perspective and undertake measures which could assist in sustaining their business in the 21st century business environment.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-273402017-02-28T01:52:15Z The era of globalisation requires small medium enterprises ('SME') in Malaysia to be aware of the importance of intellectual property awareness to sustain their businesses at an international platform Anthony Das, Cecilia Abdul Rani, Nazatul Yahya, Azhar none Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia lack awareness of intellectual property and how that relates to the sustainability of their business. In this paper a discussion on recognized intellectual property (IP) rights, legislations applicable to those rights, enforcement in Malaysia, and the benefit of complying with the IP laws and/or regulations is to be considered. It is forwarded that awareness of intellectual property rights would assist the SMEs to better position itself in a business perspective and undertake measures which could assist in sustaining their business in the 21st century business environment. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27340 School of Business, Curtin University of Technology, Sarawak, Campus, Malaysia restricted
spellingShingle Anthony Das, Cecilia
Abdul Rani, Nazatul
Yahya, Azhar
The era of globalisation requires small medium enterprises ('SME') in Malaysia to be aware of the importance of intellectual property awareness to sustain their businesses at an international platform
title The era of globalisation requires small medium enterprises ('SME') in Malaysia to be aware of the importance of intellectual property awareness to sustain their businesses at an international platform
title_full The era of globalisation requires small medium enterprises ('SME') in Malaysia to be aware of the importance of intellectual property awareness to sustain their businesses at an international platform
title_fullStr The era of globalisation requires small medium enterprises ('SME') in Malaysia to be aware of the importance of intellectual property awareness to sustain their businesses at an international platform
title_full_unstemmed The era of globalisation requires small medium enterprises ('SME') in Malaysia to be aware of the importance of intellectual property awareness to sustain their businesses at an international platform
title_short The era of globalisation requires small medium enterprises ('SME') in Malaysia to be aware of the importance of intellectual property awareness to sustain their businesses at an international platform
title_sort era of globalisation requires small medium enterprises ('sme') in malaysia to be aware of the importance of intellectual property awareness to sustain their businesses at an international platform
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27340