One of the Ways to Enhance Commercialisation Through R

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One of the ways to enhance commercialisation through R&D is through biotechnology development. Biotechnology is the global technology for 21st century. It helps to build up our research community and creates tremendous benefits for not only herbal industries, generating new products and job opportunities. Biotechnology development will ensure our country herbal industry to have ability to process herb materials to higher value products from low cost production of the herb materials. As we known, Malaysia is rich in biological resources and therefore can be the source of natural products and can lead to new pharmaceuticals. (Christopher D. Howe, 1997, pg. 315) Several biotechnology develop has been done in Malaysia. One of the common utilized biotechnology tool by Malaysia is tissue culture through Genetic Engineering to produce fast growing plants that contain high amount of beneficial phytochemicals.(Ramlan, 2010, pg31) However, biotechnology development in our country is much more critical compare with other countries due to some reasons. One of the challenges face by local herbal industry is lack of talents and well-trained work force who can define and devise strategies. The other problem is infrastructure capable of main-training biotechnological research and development. (Kenneth L. Giles, 2007, pg. 273) Most of the university structure and research facilities in our country are not fulfil biotechnology development due to economics limitations such as expensive equipment and supplies necessary for many forms of biotech. Some of the recommendations towards these problems are send talents to learn from the countries which lead the biotechnology development such as United Kingdom, Canada and so on. Besides that, investment in biotechnology development should be done by both government and private sector so that more innovative and creative strategies can be carried out by talents.