SHAH ALAM: The Selangor Government will make serious efforts to set up an entrepreneur’s campus at its capital of Shah Alam to get encourage the state’s transformation into a knowledge-based economy.

The campus will be able to provide the relevant services like an advisory panel and assistance in seed capital, designing organizational structure, marketing operation and supply chain management – all needed to build a creative poll of entrepreneurs particularly those in the technology industry (technopreneurs).

The State Government will help by facilitating the linkages between technopreneurs and the Venture Capital funds, involve the universities to be the source of innovation and foster the establishment of a number of technopreneurs centres each focusing on a particular industry cluster.

As the state capital, Shah Alam should be the centre of such development and we have identified i-City in Shah Alam to provide such a campus due to many reasons. Apart from having a ready infrastructure and facilities, i-City has been given the “MSC” status which means that companies based there will enjoy the various benefits under the MSC Bill of Guarantees.
Being developed by i-Berhad, i-City has a strong entrepreneur root and such will be in good position to understand the needs and problems by the entrepreneurs’ community which makes it a suitable place an entrepreneur’s campus.

In order to ensure the success of this effort, the state is bringing in Californian Silicon valley-based Plug and Play and Play Tech Centre which has a strong record in establishing technopreneur community in the Silicon valley and therefore can be a good role model for the entrepreneurs’ campus in Shah Alam.

TAN SRI ABDUL KHALID IBRAHIM
DATO’ MENTERI BESAR SELANGOR