Foster growth of high-tech industries that align with high-income ambitionsMalaysian Research Accelerator for Technology and Innovation officially launched its Global Accelerator Programme 2023, gathering 20 companies from Malaysia, Turkey, and Russia with the current cohort focused on three verticals - medical & healthcare, agriculture, and drone tech.
“MRANTI looks into a big cycle or a quadruple helix partnership, because this is not just one party that will feed everybody, it has to come from a full ecosystem that supports the companies coming from the agency, ministry, civil society, etc,” said Syazwani Ismail, Head of Enterprise Development of MRANTI.
As for Jinn An, “GAP offered a lot of opportunities to showcase our technologies. For example, MRANTI helped bring us to a number of international exhibitions that would otherwise cost between US$2,195-US$3,290 to join.” added that the benefit was not just going for international exhibitions, but local ones held beyond the Klang Valley . In his case attending an exhibition in Sabah in East Malaysia.
For Saravanan, who started in 2016, the first question he used to get was always, ‘what are drones?’. “The awareness of drones at that time was very limited to people who did aerial inspections or photographers.” This inability to recognise and thus build a solution that hits at the root cause of a client’s problem was an eye opener for Jinn An, who said he relies on MRANTI’s network - post GAP - to help him understand different verticals of clients he may be serving. “Don’t doubt your dream, validate it,” Saravanan urged.