Innovating Up To Speed – Measuring Penang’s Innovative Capabilities
By Norlela Ariffin
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Norlela Ariffin
has researched technological innovation capability in Malaysia since 1995. She pioneered Malaysia’s national R&D evaluation in 1990, and worked with Martin Bell and Mike Hobday to audit technological capability of firms for the Review of Malaysia’s Technology Policy (1995) and Innovation Audits in 2003 and 2008 at the Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT). In 2009-2010, she reversed engineered from Korea and operationalised Malaysia’s first Innovation Certification Programme (1-innoCERT) for SMEs.