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Assessment of innovation value chain in one of malaysia public research

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Article  in  Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology · June 2014

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ASSESSMENT OF INNOVATION VALUE CHAIN IN ONE OF

MALAYSIA PUBLIC RESEARCH INSTITUTES AND GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES

1
ISHAK,I.S., 2ALIAS,R.A., 3ABU HASSAN,R., 4BASARUDDIN,S., 5 SURADI,Z.
1,4
Department of Information Technology, Universiti Selangor, Bestari Jaya Campus, 45600, Selangor, Malaysia
2
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, UTM Skudai, 81310, Johor, Malaysia.
3
Department of Computer Science, Universiti Selangor, Bestari Jaya Campus, 45600, Selangor, Malaysia
5
Suradi. Z. is a part-time lecturer with UniKL IPROM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
E-mail: 1irny@unisel.edu.my, 2alinda@utm.my, 3 rohaya@ unisel.edu.my,
4
suzana_b@ unisel.edu.my, 5zurinah@ gmail..com.my

ABSTRACT

Innovation has long been recognized as an important driver and cultivator for
organization growth and production of quality new product and services. There are
several innovation measurement models or frameworks that can be used to assess
innovation. Innovation value chain is one of the assessment tools that can be used
to assess innovation process in a given organization. The innovation value chain
assessment finding can be used to help organization identify the weaknesses of the
innovation process in the organization. This paper presents the status of innovation
value chain in one of Malaysia Public Research Institutes and Government
Agencies and proposes guidance on how to improve on the identified weaknesses.
A survey questionnaire was sent to 140 staffs in an organization representing one
of Malaysia Public Research Institutes and Government Agencies. The finding of
the study shows that there existed an innovation culture in the selected
organization which promotes innovation within the organization. However, they
need to improve on some of areas related the processes along the idea generation,
conversion and diffusion phase. The result of this research shows that there existed
weaknesses and recommends a guidance that could be beneficial for organization
that have same problem scenario.

Keywords— Innovation, Innovation Value Chain, Innovation Management

Improvement, Research Institutes, Government Agencies

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