Mark Rozario
Disrupt #5: Follow the money, with Grove and Jamaludin
Next week’s Disrupt on Wed the 20th at Plug and Play Technologies Sdn Bhd, 7th Floor South Tower, Gardens, is all about the money. Who is giving it out, and what the funders like in the ideas and the entrepreneurs.
Malaysia has environment conducive to innovation: GE survey
Most senior business leaders in Malaysia who responded to a survey on innovation gave a resounding thumbs-up to the Malaysian Government’s various programs to inculcate innovativeness, in stark contrast to their counterparts overseas.
AIM takes 12% stake in US cardiac device start-up
AIM makes its second venture investment with a stake of around 12% in US cardiac device start-up which will use KL as its Asian Hq and center of excellence.
More university research to be commercialized via L2M
A group of government agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and industry players in Malaysia have officially announced the Lab2Market (L2M) commercialization program, through which they will collaborate to help institutions of higher learning (IHLs) and research institutions commercialize their research.
AIM to invest US$6.7 million into three Malaysian companies
It was a big day for Agensi Inovasi Malaysia (AIM), a statutory body set up by the Malaysian Government to fuel the push towards establishing an “innovation economy, as it signed three term sheets with three of the five companies it plans to invest in.
