National Innovation Agency: Strategy and Innovation Plan
Mark Rozario, CEO of Agensi Inovasi Malaysia talks about the National Innovation Agency and the innovation program.
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Mark Rozario, CEO of Agensi Inovasi Malaysia talks about the National Innovation Agency and the innovation program.
Mark Rozario, CEO of Agensi Inovasi Malaysia of provides an overall assessment of innovation in Malaysia.
When is Malaysia going to rank number 5 globally in innovation? Mark Rozario, CEO of Agensi Inovasi Malaysia talks about the progress to become number 3 innovation superpower.
The innovation is very abstract. It is a state of mind; a better question would be that how people perceive innovation and how they enjoy the excitement and the value created by innovation. In that sense, from the political leadership to the business community in Malaysia, we are very excited about the possibility of innovation.
Our journey started with the creation of the Malaysia Computer Emergency Response Team or MyCERT (www.mycert.org.my) on 13 January 1997 as a unit under MIMOS Berhad (www.mimos.my).
View the latest ranking of the most innovative companies in Malaysia for 2015. Out of the list of the top 100 most innovative companies in the world by Forbes only one Malaysian company ranked. Digi.Com Berhat ranked 100 out of 100 companies. The top three most innovative companies are Digi.Com, AirAsia followed by Maybank.
Agensi Inovasi Malaysia is a statutory body set up by the Government via AIM Act 2010, with the primary purpose of being the driving force behind Malaysia’s push towards establishing an “innovation economy” and the country’s aspirations of achieving a high-income nation status. .
“Saudi Arabia, being a very young and very technology-savvy society, is an ideal ground for Internet banking. What we have seen is very fast-growing usage of our internet banking channels, and even faster growth of our mobile applications,” explains Dr. Bernd van Linder, Managing Director of Saudi Hollandi Bank.
With a total population of approximately 30 million people, the oil state “is a very dynamic market,” Hassan Kabbani, the CEO of Zain KSA, told Marcopolis in an exclusive interview. “There is a very high level of mobile penetration, reaching more than 180%, and very high level of Smartphone penetration.” Such figures are rare in the emerging markets, but typical for the Gulf Arab oil states with its low population density, but huge distances between the different cities and villages.
“There has been a visible shift from a cash economy towards an electronic economy, in terms of cashless payments such as cards and the growth of internet payments and internet banking. It’s growing at an exponential rate,” says Priyan L. Attygalle, CEO of American Express, Saudi Arabia.