Pembangunan pekerja pengetahuan di teknopol Cyberjaya, Malaysia dan Bengaluru International Tech Park (BITP), India – Satu perbandingan (The development of K - workers in the t echnopoles of Malaysia’s Cyberjaya and India’s Bengaluru International Tech Park (BITP) – A comparison)
Abstract
In this globalisation era, the development of a technopole is invariably prompted by its potential to generate occupational opportunities as well as to effect technology and knowledge transfers from the foreign companies investing in the technopole to local workforce. It is rather strange if there are tecnopoles which are planned not to achieve these two main objectives. This paper brings into focus the question as to what extent the development of the Bangalore Sofware City (BSC) in India, in particular, the Bengluru International Tech Park (BITP), and that of the Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) in Malaysia, in particular, the Cyberjaya, really do bring about the development of a Silicon Valley and not just a Coolie Valley. The comparative analysis indicates that although the technology transfer activities by foreign companies have been most encouraging in both technopoles the situation in terms of K-workers development in Cyberjaya may be described as only ‘moderate ’ while that in BITP rather ‘high’ at all levels of input, throughput (process), output, outcome and impact examined. This manifests the fact that foreign companies investing in the BITP were more open and willing to develop local K-workers as compared to those in Cyberjaya. By the same token, Cyberjaya K-workers would do well to better motivate themselves to equal the progress of their BITP counterparts as their creativity and productivity in the new technologies are still relatively limited due to lesser opportunities, exposure and trust granted them by their foreign employers.
Keywords: globalisation, K-workers, new technology creativity, silicon valley, technology transfer, technopoles
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