the initiatives could focus on enhancing student pathways among institutions increasing the percentage of students from lowincome and minority populations gaining a tertiary education certificationdegree or increasing opportunities for adultmature students to pursue and complete tertiary education within this context malaysia is encountering difficulties to translate scientific knowledge into technological capabilities although an important player in knowledge diffusion and st activities universities have not yet enlarged the national research potential and reached the quality of rd performed in the oecd countries the country has been overperforming in terms of publication intensity but among asean economies its scientific publications are less frequently cited and its researcher population less numerous