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Business Ready Environment
Starting and expanding your business in Malaysia is a straightforward process. Malaysia’s robust financial and banking sectors, pro-business policies, well-developed infrastructure, and government support make it an easy place to conduct business.
Perfectly positioned as a central hub for worldwide trade routes, Malaysia offers a top-tier air transport infrastructure. Complemented by our strategic coastal ports, which serve as an accessible maritime link vital for global commerce, Malaysia facilitates seamless business operations and enhances investment prospects across continents. Additionally, Malaysia provides a selection of secure trade corridors and industrial zones, enabling uninterrupted supply chains and business activities.
Malaysia upholds business-friendly policies that are pragmatic and effective, cultivating a stable and supportive environment for your business to thrive. These policies encompass flexible incentives, strong intellectual property protection laws in line with global standards, and the freedom to have 100% equity ownership in manufacturing and select service sectors.
Our efforts in attracting investments and driving productivity and innovation through economic and regulatory reforms have received worldwide recognition by various international institutions.
Malaysia is committed to continuously developing and upgrading its infrastructure. This has resulted in over 500 dedicated industrial parks, specialised industrial parks and free industrial zones, expanding telecommunication technologies, growing network of highways, efficient seaports and well-recognised international airports.
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Malaysia has over 500
industrial estates
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Malaysia has 18
Free Industrial Zones (FIZS)
Malaysia offers world-class infrastructure for efficient transportation of people and goods. With advanced technology, international airports, seaports, and highways, it serves as a gateway to the Asia-Pacific market.
Industrial parks are continuously being developed by state governments as well as private developers to meet industry’s demands. Malaysia’s economic corridors complement MIDA’s efforts to attract strategic partners to invest in their respective regions.
Companies in FIZs are allowed duty free imports of raw materials, components, parts, machinery and equipment directly required in the manufacturing process. In areas where FIZs are not available, companies may apply to set up Licenced Manufacturing Warehouses (LMWs).
Specialised parks are developed to cater to the needs of specific industries. These include Technology Park Malaysia in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur and the Kulim Hi-Tech Park in the northern state of Kedah which also caters to technology-intensive industries and R&D activities.
Malaysia’s liberal equity policy enables your businesses to establish a strong presence and gain a competitive edge. Since June 2003, foreign investors have been allowed 100% equity ownership in new, expansion, and diversification projects within the manufacturing sector and specific services sector. The liberalised services sub-sectors encompass health and social services, tourism services, transport services, business services, and computer-related services.
Malaysia’s IP laws are in conformance with international standards
Malaysia has signed Investment Guarantee Agreements (IGAs) with more than 60 countries.
Our robust Intellectual Property (IP) protection attracts the world’s most innovative companies. Our secure IP laws safeguard not only ideas and concepts but also vital business assets crucial to long-term success.
To illustrate, Intel, through its Malaysian Global Service Centre, generates value for its customers and stakeholders. The centre conducts R&D for computing devices and offers diverse services including finance, human resources, information technology, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, and sales marketing support.
With over RM14 billion invested over the span of 50 years and employing over 9,000 highly skilled Malaysians, Intel’s first offshore assembly plant established in 1972 has now become the largest assembly and test site in its global network, located here in Penang.
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The US Chamber of Commerce’s Global Innovation Policy Centre (GIPC), in its 7th Annual International Intellectual Property (IP) index – 2022, ranks Malaysia second in South-East Asia.
Malaysia actively fosters a dynamic R&D environment with incentives for IP development, meeting the demand for global innovation amid evolving technologies and businesses.
Malaysia’s conducive environment positions it as a leading global destination for manufacturing. With over 5,000 foreign companies from more than 50 countries establishing their presence, it reflects unwavering confidence in Malaysia as the preferred destination for your global growth investment.
Malaysia attracts a hybrid suite of business models, which include Global/Regional Headquarters, Centres of Excellence (COEs), Procurement and Distribution Hubs, offering numerous advantages to multinational corporations (MNCs) looking for a strategic hub in the Asia-Pacific region to efficiently manage their service operations and regional or global supply chains.
The NIA serves as a visionary growth framework to drive extensive reforms in Malaysia’s investment policies. It focuses on coherence and is reflected across all national policy papers and initiatives related to investment, including the New Industrial Master Plan and the 12th Malaysia Plan. This framework assumes an important role in revitalising Malaysia’s investment environment to attract high quality investments and create high-income employment opportunities.
Increase the Economic Complexity
Enabling comprehensive reform in strengthening economic diversity and complexity of exports, enhanced local Research and Development (R&D), an improved capabilities, for a broader array of high-value products and services.
Create High-Value Jobs
Create high skill jobs to provide better income for the people.
Extend Domestic Linkages
Expanding and integrating domestic linkages into regional and global supply chains by improving resiliency.
Develop New and Existing Clusters
Accelerating the formation of new clusters in high-growth sectors while developing existing clusters to boost productivity, value creation, and economic effect.
Improve Inclusivity
Promoting inclusive growth focusing on socio-economic development.
The NIA aims to drive sustainable and high-quality investment in emerging and diverse sectors, fuelling Malaysia’s long-term growth. MIDA, with its established track record in promoting and facilitating investments, will assume a vital role in this initiative aligning with institutional reforms and the NIA’s mandate for improved policy coherence.
Under the NIA, investment strategies will prioritise investments and innovation that strike a balance between economic and environmental sustainability anchored on global environmental, social and governance (ESG) benchmarks to support growth along the supply and value chains.
The green initiatives under Budget 2022 include reinforcing the need for Malaysian companies and the local supply chain to adopt ESG frameworks premised on higher value creation.
The transforming strategic sectors that have been identified following ESG-based practices include:
The 12MP encompasses Economic Empowerment, Environmental Sustainability, and Social Reengineering, working in harmony for Malaysia’s vision of Shared Prosperity. These dimensions align with Malaysia’s commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. For more details, visit the Official Portal of the Ministry of Economy.
