Investors expecting to be spoon-fed can look elsewhere.
That is what we hope to create. Chin, who worked in Silicon Valley for 10 years, said Malaysia has a base of technology-related companies but these are mostly in semiconductors, contract manufacturing, IC packaging, equipment related and the storage industry. Our strengths are in these areas as we have 20 years experience in them since the start of the free-trade zones. So it is ripe to look at this technology base. Chin said the two main problems consultants have in valuing software companies are the lack of technical expertise to qualify the capabilities of the company and the difficulty in quantifying the intellectual property.