Building a technopolis - a critical analysis of Malaysia's multimedia super corridor.

As part of Malaysia's Vision 2020, Malaysia embarked on a bold project - the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) - adopt the Information Age approach to economic development. Malaysia aims to develop MSC into a technopolis: an area with an agglomeration of high-technology firms. This report presen...

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Main Authors: Chua, Yang Boon., Kang, Leng Lay., Tan, Fei Ling.
Other Authors: Das, Shobha Sasidharan
Format: Final Year Project
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/10907
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
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Summary:As part of Malaysia's Vision 2020, Malaysia embarked on a bold project - the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) - adopt the Information Age approach to economic development. Malaysia aims to develop MSC into a technopolis: an area with an agglomeration of high-technology firms. This report presents an overview of the underlying forces that bring about this clustering phenomenon and the benefits that arise through the concentration of firms.