Malaysia is now directing its innovation focus towards alternative energies and sustainability, according to United Nations assistant secretary-general Kanni Wignaraja. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, August 2, 2022.
Kanni – the UNDP assistant administrator and director of the regional bureau for Asia and the Pacific – said, as an upper middle-income country, Malaysia is teeming with talent and innovative solutions to overcome local and global challenges and such stories were mentioned in the inaugural Malaysia Innovates Report 2022, launched today.
“Now, as the pandemic abates, countries are facing worsening economic fallout through inflation and a humanitarian crisis through food shortages and conflict. Kanni said according to the Global Innovation Index published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation , Malaysia ranked 36th among the 132 economies featured in the GII 2021 and eighth among the 17 economies in southeast Asia and Oceania.