Knowledge has been defined as a major resource for development. Especially countries without natural resources have … found this idea attractive and have embarked on development strategies to develop a knowledge-based economy. In doing so … research funds for the next stage of development. A shortage of high-level manpower is likely to occur, which will reduce the …

, Malaysia, Singapore - with the larger ocean space, the Indian Ocean. Focusing on the maritime potential of nations represents … the other principal component of CenPRIS’s ocean research cluster. The development of the “CenPRIS Ocean Index” will …’s new Ocean Policy. Another research project under the cluster will examine the development of Penang as a knowledge hub in …

. Development Economic Theory embraces the expectation of a direct relationship between economic growth and export diversification … proposes a Specialization Index and applies it to six small developing countries: Singapore, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico …

Using a panel of five Asian economies - Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand - over the period 1995 …-2007 we analyze the links between firm survival and financial development. We find that traditionally used measures of … financial development play an important role in influencing firm survival. When stock markets become larger or more liquid firms …

This paper addresses the question how knowledge is used to benefit the economic development of Singapore and Malaysia …

population growth and economic development. The findings imply that there is no statistically significant long-run relationship …, but a causal relationship between population growth and economic development in Sarawak. In other words, the empirical … findings indicate that population can have neither positive nor negative impact on economic development. The findings also …