The Knowledge Economy is Penang’s Future

By Lim Chee Han

January 2016 PENANG ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
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By giving assistance to science education and start-ups, the state government is laying the foundations for a quantum leap.On November 30 last year, news broke that four young inventors from SJKT Ramakrishna had won six international awards and a gold medal for their problemsolving, functional “noise reducer” at the 3rd Hong Kong International Student Innovation Contest 2015-20161. Many Malaysians took to social media to praise these Year 6 students.According to their science teacher, Syiamala Durairaj, their school has Science, Robotics...

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Lim Chee Han

received his PhD in Infection Biology from Hannover Medical School, Germany. He is currently a senior analyst in the economics section at Penang Institute.

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