Driving Innovation from Creation to Commercialisation

Mark Rozario, CEO of the National Innovation Agency or Agensi Inovasi Malaysia (AIM) discusses: 

--  AIM's mandate to narrow the gap between innovators and industry

--  The difference between AIM and the Special Innovations Unit (Unit Innovasi Khas) as well as Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation (MOSTI)

--  If something as fluid and conceptual and serendipitous as innovation be led by a system as structured and as rigid as a government

--  Creating an innovative culture

--  Developing the innovation eco-system for Malaysia, e.g the education system, universities, the private sector, etc

--  Education system: What can be done to teach children to think critically and AIM's iThink programme

--  AIM's 42 Innovation Business Opportunities -- how many have been take up so far -- the bidding & award process 

--  AIM's mandate to make equity investments in innovations stuck in 'the valley of death'