New Delhi, Mar 13 (KNN) With a view to improve entrepreneurship skills among SMEs, Divisions of International Affairs & Industry Interface of Lovely Professional University (LPU) has conducted Indo-Malaysian Industrial Symposium at LPU campus.

This symposium is attended by 17 CEOs from Malaysian multi-sector Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), representatives of Human Resource Development Fund (HRDF) and University Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) .

20 CEOs from Indian SMEs has also attended various valuable sessions, important discussions and panel discussions related to mutual B2B plan.

Idea behind conducting Indo-Malaysian Industrial symposium is to create stronger tie-ups between India and Malaysia as both sides of CEOs are keen to work jointly for the better results in future.

Since 2016, Malaysian SMEs Corp and HRDF have been working hard under the University Program to provide structured learning opportunity to their CEOs.

Believing in the great academia-industry advantage between the two nations, Director UTM Center for Students, Innovation & Technology Entrepreneurship, and Associate Prof Mohd Zaidi Abd Rozan said “formal education can provide a living but informal is to give fortune.”

Working on UTM tagline-innovative, entrepreneurial and global, in order to build strong entrepreneurial background, Director Zaidi said "This visit to LPU is aimed to develop capable CEOs of SMEs to explore and gain knowledge on entrepreneurship, and generate business tools from theory and methodology to applied skills”.

He further said that these kinds of joint efforts by both the nations will definitely improve entrepreneurship skills among SMEs.

CEO Perfect Mix Enterprise Jason Lee; Senior Manager, Business Development SME Corp Roshaidi Rosli; Officer HRDF Mohd Hafiz Mohd Seth; and, CEOs from diverse sectors including Pharmaceuticals, Construction, Academics, Foods, Beverages, Metals and more were also presented there. (KNN/YV)