National Scientific Facilities and Equipment (NSFE)

National Scientific Facilities and Equipment (NSFE)

The National Scientific Facilities & Equipment (NSFE) aims to encourage sharing of facilities and scientific equipment among STI community and enhance research and development (R&D) cooperation. The initiative also plans to encourage the industrial and public sector to collaborate in R&D activities.

This initiative will also help the STI community execute R&D&C activities to produce new products, processes or technologies via rentals or acquire analytics services without the need to procure expensive equipment. Moreover, the industry could gain technical advice in STI through the sharing of facilities and scientific equipment. The country also benefited by having centralized information on facilities and equipment scientific that eventually avoid procurement of similar scientific equipment.

The NSFE was develop by the Malaysian Science and Technology Information Center (MASTIC) that contains information on facilities and scientific equipment in Malaysia. The equipment is owned by government departments and agencies, government research institutions and public higher education institutions. The sharing of facilities and scientific equipment for this initiative refers to the following scope and definitions:

1. Sharing scope of facilities and scientific equipment includes equipment rentals, R&D cooperation, offers of analytic services or technical advisory and sharing of the analysis result;
2. Definition of STI facilities refers location or places where research and scientific activities are pursued such as a laboratory, the monitoring centre and site of testing; and
3. The definition of scientific equipment refers to machine, equipment, apparatus, accessories or parts that are specific or unique worth RM100,000.00 and more which utilized for research activities, analysis, teaching/learning, testing and inspection services.

MASTIC will continue increasing the number of facility and scientific equipment in NSFE. Therefore, MASTIC encourage various agencies / departments and the private sector to list their owned scientific facilities and equipment worth RM100,000.00 in the NSFE by register it on the KRSTE.my portal.