Innovation-Led Economy Aspiration by Year 2020: Are Malaysian Universities Ready?

Throughout East Asia, the urgency of nurturing innovation oriented human capital is pressing. In Malaysia, the government policy has been shifted from resources based to innovation-led economy. Malaysia government believe that innovation-led economy will enable Malaysia to achieve high income status...

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Main Author: Shuib, Munir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Higher Education Research Institute, Universiti Sains Malaysia 2013
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Online Access:http://eprints.usm.my/35010/
http://eprints.usm.my/35010/1/BULLETIN_22_PART_2.pdf
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Summary:Throughout East Asia, the urgency of nurturing innovation oriented human capital is pressing. In Malaysia, the government policy has been shifted from resources based to innovation-led economy. Malaysia government believe that innovation-led economy will enable Malaysia to achieve high income status by the year 2020. Their believed is that innovation will boost new values creation in term of new product and service thus creates competitive edges in the market competition for Malaysia.