Science parks and university–industry collaboration in Malaysia

A Reassessment of the Roles of Technoscience Parks in Malaysia: Towards Developing A Sustainable Innovation Ecosystem

“…Social networks are indeed essential to the success of the entrepreneurial process and are key environmental elements in which firms are created. In today's k-economy era, technoscience parks have been widely viewed as strategic tools to promote university-industry collaboration in Malaysia (Malairaja & Zawdie, 2008) This study reveals that social networks have been developed moderately in both the parks. Both parks in this case study are facing not only a lack of "communities of practices" (as in the words of Bernasconi et al, 2006) in generating industrial innovation, but also a lack of the kind of communities of practices which might support and accompany company creation and development, particularly venture capitalists and merchant banks.…”

“…It started just a few decades ago as an institutional support to empower the Malaysian industrial structure, particularly to accelerate the manufacturing sector as the main engine of growth through science, technology and innovation (Robani, 2008). This was initiated to ensure that the Malaysian industrial and technological competitiveness was able to meet the growing global challenges (Narayanan & Lai, 2000;Ramasamy, Chakrabarty, & Cheah, 2004;Lai & Yap, 2004;Malairaja & Zawdie, 2008) Historically, the technoscience parks have evolved tremendously since 1960s from industrial estates to free trade zones with technoscience parks as the latest development. Apart from the great potential of attracting foreign investment, the government has immense expectations for the parks to generate employment and skilled workers for the country.…”

Collaborative and Linkage Programs Between TVET Institutions and the Industry. A Case of TVET Institutions in North Rift Region, Kenya.

“…Additionally,Hernes and Martin (2001) observe that University-institute partnership is a relatively new phenomenon that emerged during the past century and has strongly expanded in scope and number over the recent decades It covers a wide range of diverse realities from the more traditional, such as placement schemes, staff exchanges, consultancy services, continuing professional development, joint research and development, to the recent areas such as small enterprises development-the creation of spin offs for the joint commercialization of Research and design for collaborative research at the national and international level. Companies that collaborate with learning institutions typically have higher productivity rates than companies that do not have such collaboration (Cedefop, 2016;Malairaja & Zawdie, 2008). Such collaboration has the benefits of producing quality products at a competitive cost due to research and development.…”

Inovação Colaborativa Em Ambientes De Parques Científico-Tecnológicos: Proposta De Um Esquema Teórico-Conceitual

“…O papel dos parques também não está claro no que se refere aos elementos que fazem parte de sua própria identidade como instituição, como a promoção de relacionamentos interorganizacionais para a inovação. Em relação a estratégias de colaboração, alguns estudos apontam que os parques fortalecem os relacionamentos entre organizações (Kai-Ying, Oerlemans, & Pretorius, 2010;Phillimore, 1999;Tan, 2006;Vedovello, 1997) enquanto outros não encontraram evidências nesse sentido (Bakouros, Mardas, & Varsakelis, 2002;Kihlgren, 2003;Malairaja & Zawdie, 2008;Radosevic & Myrzakhmet, 2009;Vedovello, 1997) 2 . As ambiguidades permanecem quando o enfoque é direcionado à geração de inovações, pois alguns trabalhos apontam contribuições significativas dos parques nesse sentido (Squicciarini, 2009;Tan, 2006;Yang, Motohashi, & Chen, 2009); outros, contudo, não confirmam essa proposição (Kai-Ying et al, 2010;Massey et al, 1992;Radosevic & Myrzakhmet, 2009;Westhead, 1997).…”