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Strategic Plan 2025 - 2030 | MEITD

MEITD is strategically positioned to support Sarawak ’ s innovation aspirations by bridging the gap
between education, research, industry, and talent development. The ministry ’s involvement is multi-
dimensional, focusing on policy formulation, institutional capacity-building, and industry-academic
collaboration.

MEITD ensures that education, research, and
talent policies are aligned with Sarawak ’s MEITD ensures that Sarawak ’s workforce is
economic priorities and global innovation equipped with industry-relevant skills by:
trends. • Expanding STEM and TVET
• Develops state-driven R&D policies to initiatives to produce skilled
accelerate commercialization efforts graduates for high-tech industries.
and ensure industry relevance. • Enhancing research training
• Establishes regulatory frameworks programs to increase the number of
that support intellectual property (IP) full-time equivalent (FTE) researchers
protection, technology transfer, and per million people in Sarawak.
private sector collaboration. • Supporting digital literacy and
• Aligns Sarawak ’s education and emerging technology training,
innovation strategies with the Post- ensuring technological readiness for
COVID-19 Development Strategy future industries.
(PCDS) 2030 and Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs).
• Facilitates global research
collaborations to enhance knowledge-
sharing and cross-border innovation.
• Facilitates the development of • Engages industry stakeholders to
innovation clusters focusing on align education curricula with market
Biotechnology, Renewable Energy, demands, fostering industry-driven
and Digital R&D. innovation.
• Supports the establishment of • Strengthens Sarawak ’s venture
research infrastructure, such as the capital ecosystem, supporting start-
Bio Industrial Park and Bio Hub Port, ups and innovation-driven
to enable commercial-scale research. enterprises.
• Encourages public-private
partnerships (PPPs) to increase
private sector participation in R&D
funding and enhance technology
commercialization.

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