Barriers of innovation of food processing SMIs in Malaysia: an empirical study

The purpose of this study is to examine the important barriers that affecting innovation process of food processed based SMIs in Malaysia. From the analysis it was found that there are various factors that could prevent the food processed based SMIs to innovate. The result of this study shows that some barriers did have some significant impact on the firm innovation process among food processing SMIs in Malaysia. The findings this research will be useful for everybody particularly for the SME Corporation and Ministry of Entrepreneurship Development of Malaysia to get some ideas and develop suitable training programs to help and assist the SMIs owner in the future endeavor. The paper finalizes with some conclusions for policy makers, industry and other actors, and also future research.