Analysis, research and consultancy firm Frost and Sullivan is to hire 830 people in its newly opened Global Innovation Centre of Excellence in business district Iskandar Malaysia in the South of peninsular Malaysia.

The centre opened yesterday (29 August), and will have its full complement of staff in place by 2020.

The centre will work to “create new knowledge-based activities and develop specialised skills” supporting Malaysia’s vision of becoming a high-income nation by 2020.

Wawasan 2020 (Vision 2020) was first set out in 1991, since when the country’s GDP per capita, expressed at constant currency, has nearly doubled.