Support System for Entrepreneurial and Small and Medium Ventures in ICT Sector: Case of the Technopreneurship Development Program (TDP) Flagship of Malaysia’s Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) Project - Technopolis: Best Practices for Science and Technology Cities - page 246

Fig. 6 Malaysia's MTD programme across the enterprise development life cycle

• Local Firms and MNCs as Partners for Market Access and Technology
• All types of Finance Providers
• Other SMEs in the market.

The Fig. 7 illustrates the linkages in the TDP program between the various
actors in the support system for SMEs to enhance their business and technology
capabilities.
The role of TDP in development of SMEs in ICT Sector is seen as a facilitator
in linking up the actors in the system for building up the business and techno-
logical capability of the SMEs who are in various part of the Value Chain
(Technoprenuer Value Chain)/An example of its role is when a SME client seeks
help, the TeDD personnel assess and then partners these ICT SMEs with com-
panies like IBM, Sun Systems, Maxis (a Local Mobile Telecommunication Giant),
all of whom have 'partnership development programs' providing technology
support in terms of hardware/software and also training programs for SMEs.
In addition to the SMEs being networked through the MTD flagship program
there has been a slow and steady growth of ICT SMEs leveraging on the actors in
the sub-national system and creating linkages with firms and other institutions
locally and overseas—sometimes on their own initiatives and income cases
through interventions from the cluster players and are enhancing their techno-
logical capabilities.