말레이시아 기술혁신체제의 기능적 분석

The Functional Analysis of Technology Innovation System in Malaysia: Focused on the Information and Communication Industry

Generally, when innovation systems are researched on a national level, many authors have focused on their structures and institutions. However, in order to understand the dynamics of innovation systems we also need look into the functional aspects of the innovation systems. This paper explores the failures of ICT industry in Malaysia through the functional analysis of innovation system. Many countries has pursued the active ways for the development of the ICT industry establishing the innovation policies and accomplishing the reform of innovation systems because of the importance of ICT and innovation. Malaysia has also performed a large-scale reform of systems and policy-making. In spite of this national endeavors, Malaysia showed large difference in innovation performance comparing that of Singapore, Korea and Japan. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the causes of the functional system problems attributing the failure of Malaysian ICT industry to the functional problems of innovation system.