Introduction: GC5 – Pushing Economic Borders
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Introduction
This Grand Challenge welcomes research programmes to be carried out in areas such as innovative product and process development, human resources/skills development, business development, creation of high-income jobs and improvement of national competitiveness. Research programmes may relate to the 12 NKEAS identified under the national Economic Transformation Programme formulated to propel Malaysia towards becoming a high-income nation by 2020.
Themes:
- Labour migration across borders
- human capital development for a high-income nation
- wealth creation through entrepreneurship
- income-enhancing platform technology
Objectives:
- To promote researchers to be more involved in industries and aim to achieve high-end and value-added products.
- To support research with wow factors that not only produce scientific findings of research but also have social science aspects that resulted in impactful outcomes and help elevate the social wellbeing of the community as well as the nation.
List of Grand Challenges: