BANGKOK: Asian countries must shift from merely being “technology parrots,” consumers and manufacturers to become innovators of home-grown technologies, National Economic Action Council (NEAC) executive director Datuk Mustapa Mohamed said.
Speaking at the Sixth Hitachi Young Leaders’ Initiative Conference here yesterday, he said Japan was now the only Asian country that could claim to be a nation of technological innovation, while South Korea was catching up fast.
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