Formulation of the RDICE Roadmap
May 11, 2022Inter-Agency Committee on Global Innovation Index (GII) Monitoring
May 11, 2022TCA was proposed to jump-start wealth creation through disruptive local innovations, capitalising on demand-driven R&D and market-driven delivery system approach. It serves the role as a catalyst, enabler, and convenor of innovation to:
- Spearhead economic-oriented research
- Bridge research and technology commercialisation
- Nurture industry-ready talent
As a follow-through to the presentation to the High-Tech Nation Council on 17 December 2020, ASM presented the enhanced proposal entitled Forging Local Innovation Ecosystems for a High-Tech Nation through TCA at the NSC meeting. The proposal’s objective was to obtain the mandate from NSC for the institutionalisation of TCA to drive nation’s competitiveness as a High-Tech Nation. NSC agreed that impactful public-private partnership for Research, Development, Commercialisation, and Innovation (R,D,C&I) has been a long-standing structural issue in Malaysia.
Efforts were then forged to institutionalise TCA through the establishment of Malaysian Research Accelerator for Technology and Innovation (MRANTI) in November 2021. It was established through the merger of two agencies under MOSTI namely, Technology Park Malaysia (TPM) and the Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (MaGIC) to accelerate Malaysia towards becoming an innovation-driven economy.