Research and development activities toward capacity building: Malaysia experience
This paper discusses the Malaysia position in world ranking on publication of papers in international science and technology journals. Malaysia was ranked number fifty-five (55) among 178 countries. Several factors had been identified to relate shortcoming of research publication in Malaysia in comp...
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/2766/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/2766/1/Abdul_Ghafar_bin_Abdul_Rahman.pdf |
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| Summary: | This paper discusses the Malaysia position in world ranking on publication of papers in international science and technology journals. Malaysia was ranked number fifty-five (55) among 178 countries. Several factors had been identified to relate shortcoming of research publication in Malaysia in comparison with developed countries such as the country research and development (R&D) expenditure, number of researchers on ratio of 1,000 labour force and R&D expenditure as percentage of Gross Domestic Product. The R&D expenditure at institutional level comprising Institutes of Higher Learning, Government Research Institutes, and private sector were also been highlighted. This paper further discussed the low involvement of academia as project leader in research activities citing example of Kolej Universiti Teknologi Tun Hussein Onn as case. As a conclusion this paper recommended several factors to be explored further as to what are driving factors that influence academia to conduct and upgrade their research performance. |
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