Industry4WRD, Malaysia’s national policy for Industry 4.0 (“i4.0”) and Malaysia’s National 4IR Policy were launched with the aim at transforming Malaysia’s industries to be smart, systematic and resilient. This presents a rare opportunity for government-affiliated institution like Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (“MTDC”) to manoeuvre and execute programmes vis-a-vis SME companies’ unwillingness to embrace i4.0 / 4IR technologies. 

The MTDC’s Centre of Nine (9) Pillars (“Co9P”), a community-based entity was established to help nurture new technologies and innovations which will help accelerate scaling-up for SMEs. It also established to support the Industry4WRD and National 4IR Policy; to grow local companies as technology solution providers, facilitate technology adoption activities between solution providers and SMEs, reduce the dependency on foreign technologies and accelerate the creation of locally-developed technologies. 

The purpose of this presentation is to highlight MTDC’s Co9P concept and the case study of Co9P companies working together as a consortium to mitigate/manage Covid-19, enabling Malaysia’s National Entrepreneurship Policy 2030, in an effort to build local technology solution providers and facilitate technology adoption activities among SMEs.