Factors driven university-industry collaboration in creating value for eco-innovation in biomass industry

Looi, Kah Hong (2019) Factors driven university-industry collaboration in creating value for eco-innovation in biomass industry. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Due to human being’s activities on the earth, people had increased attention on the ecological footprint as the health of the earth had been stretched to a worrying limit. Many country started to explore and release programmes and policies that support sustainable development and a lot of organization started to find different ways to invest in development of eco-innovation such as through university-industry collaboration due to it is an emerging trend for representing source of advanced knowledge and propelling new technologies. Hence, this study is to identify the factors driven university-industry collaboration in creating value for eco-innovation in Melaka Biomass industry in order to motivate more industry to form collaboration with universities as the U-I collaboration in Malaysia are relatively weak. Four factors which are enhance core competitiveness, improve developmental efficiency and reduce developmental cost, promote technological capacities and improve operating performance and promoting training and recruitment of high quality personnel are going to discuss in this study. A qualitative research was used to collect information from five employees from company M. This study has showed how university-industry collaboration does co-evolved leading to eco-innovation development and the most significant factor is promoting training and recruitment of high quality personnel. As a result, this research can encourage more industry to form the collaboration with universities and develop effective R&D collaboration in eco-innovation practice.

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