KUALA LUMPUR, April 5 (Bernama) -- The Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation is detailing the framework for the Malaysian National Innovation Centre (MyNIC) to set up a comprehensive innovation system for the country under the 10th Malaysia Plan, Parliament was told on Monday.

"We have had several workshops with universities and discussed with several ministries, agencies and industry people to get feedback before making a final decision," said Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Fadillah Yusof.

He said this in Parliament today when answering a question by Nurul Izzah Anwar (Parti Keadilan Rakyat-Lembah Pantai) regarding the MyNIC programme and its success.

Fadillah said among MyNIC's programmes and activities were the Technology Powerhouse to develop techno industries as a platform to provide commercial intellectual property services through its Business Arm as well as management and innovation.

MyNIC also struck out to manage matching research and development for market needs as well as introducing new products and technology for both the domestic and international markets, he said.

To assist in the development of Small and Medium Industries, Fadillah said MyNIC will tie-up with centres of excellence at universities and centres of research from both the private and public sectors.

"We will also have continous dialogue programmes with industry players via Business Matching programmes and have intellectual property recognition to aid and recognise ideas until they produce products," he said.

However, he said the ministry's role was for development to the point of "pre-commercialisation" and this would then be taken over by other agencies for commercialisation.

"As such we have set up a network of cooperation with other ministries like Miti so that research can be streamlined and be developed to be brought to market and be applied for community use," he said.

Fadillah also told Parliament that 290 projects had been commercialised under ministry funds and these generated national income of RM2.8 billion.

-- BERNAMA