[The Petri Dish] The TPPA Dream: Is it heading for the exit door?
While the whole wide world was still reeling from the news of Brexit and Brangelexit (Seriously, who comes up with terms like these?), the news of Donald Trump edging against fellow presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to become the next US president may have overloaded the incredulity meter of most common folks. As those darn millennials […]
[Business Today] TPPA Dream: Is it Over?
[Management] Building Barriers Against Competition
By KASS International Every business faces competition. The question is not whether competitors will come, but how quickly they will arrive, how well equipped they will be, and how much damage they will do before the market settles into a new equilibrium. The businesses that survive and thrive over the long term are not always […]
[MGCC Perspectives] Goodbye 2016! Hello 2017!
[Business Today] On-Site Plant Visits
[Invention Asia] The Key to Beating your Competitors
Most SMEs are started by persons who were once employees in an organisation where they had acquired the necessary technical skills and knowledge to manufacture the product their employer was manufacturing. These same individuals had the entrepreneurial spirit burning deep inside them, and so, armed with the skill / knowledge and a little capital (usually […]
Fireworks
By Ilangkumanan Kashaban When the clock ticks to 12 o’clock to welcome New Year, it is the most anticipated moment in everyone’s life or at least majority of us to watch, feel, hear and smell the sparkles of fireworks that beautify the sky in every part of the world. With that, I came across an […]
[Trademart] Intellectual Property protection from the get-go through the Go-Ex Programme
The idea of going global and venturing into the export market seems to be a rather unnerving and formidable endeavour for most local SMEs (small and medium enterprises) in Malaysia. This is evidenced by the fact that SME contribution to export is fairly low at 19% despite accounting for 99% of all business establishments in […]
[The Petri Dish] Caution on On-Site Plant Visits
In Malaysia, many manufacturing companies are becoming more enlightened and more aware of patent rights, trade secrets and the importance of safeguarding trade secrets against inadvertent disclosure to third parties or strangers visiting the production facilities.