KUALA LUMPUR: It is often said that inventors and scientists do not make good businessmen.
Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Kong Cho Ha has a suggestion for them – forge smart partnerships with the business community.
“They need to trust business people and not hold on to their inventions for dear life.
“If big businesses can offer them 5% to 10% of their profits, they would make a few million ringgit instead of having to set up their own business and struggle for 10 years, he said.
The MCA vice-president said four years ago he took the initiative to establish the MCA ICT Resource Centre (MIRC), tasked with empowering small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs) to use improved technology.
“We not only had the SMEs transformed but we too were transformed,” he said at the second Technopreneur Development Semi-nar and Study Tour yesterday.
MIRC has set up two incubator centres for ICT in Kuala Lumpur and Penang and is discussing with parties involved in the Iskandar Development Region and the Perak technocrat centre for more incubators to be set up.
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