Saturday, December 27, 2014

RESEARCH THE RESEARCH

Research is a very costly endeavour. There is no guarantee that there will be any tangible result comes out from a research undertaking. Even, there is a results, it may not be useful or practical. Then, there is a question of funding to make the fruit of research commercial viable.

Many researches done by corporation, university or individual never reach production stage. There are many issues involved here. The researcher often is not the decision maker to turn the research effort into product development. It is a judgement call to decide if the research is commercially worthwhile. As a result, many researches with very good potential never make it out of the laboratory.

Malaysia has a small market. It is not profitable to conduct large scale research. On the other hand, conduct research and development is vital to further develop the country. As an alternative, we should spend effort to research the research to uncover the result of research which has good potential but being abandoned for various reasons. We can then pour our resource into them to make it a commercial viable product.


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