R and D and Business

28 January 2010
I read with interest an article in The Star "Change mind set about research, says Dr M". Tun Mahathir always make headlines with his words, including this one regarding R&D progress in Malaysia. He rightly said that, "Research is not about making profits. This kind of thinking is not up to date." He said further that research was all about acquiring information and making discoveries. He said one of the things Malaysia must do was to set up incubators for young people with ideas to create new things. This, he said, was important as the country had moved away from the labour intensive industries of the past into brain intensive industries. He said local investors should be nurtured and allowed to grow as world-class entrepreneurs. Syabas Tun M!