The Progress of Malaysian Translational Social Science and Humanities Research: From research to practice

The Malaysian research progress is reflected through publications, funding, intellectual property and knowledge transfer. However, literatures on translating the outcome of social science and humanities research into practice are lacking. This paper studies the issues of translating knowledge derived from the social science and humanities research into beneficial products for the society. Data is gathered from primary and secondary sources. The findings show slower output and mediocre amount of publications, reasonable funding for research, no quantified knowledge translation between universities and industry, and the research culture at formative years. Conclusively, more determination is needed to translate research into practice for social science and humanities research in Malaysia. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.