RESEARCH and development (R&D) has always been at the heart of Tee Tone Vei’s venture. This, Tee realised, called for a rather drawn-out education process in the local market which the team was prepared to do. Based on its success with Reinz in the UK, Intrix started developing a similar product that catered to the Malaysian market. However, Tee notes that local universities have a lot less industrial collaboration by percentage in their research. This points to a need to foster stronger industrial-based research among local academics.
