TO promote quality research of world class standards, Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) plans to further expose its academic communities to its long established Institute of Research, Development and Commercialisation (IRDC) management centre, which will facilitate their research, development, commercialisation and intellectual property (IP) protection activities.
According to UiTM's assistant vice chancellor (research) Professor Dr Azni Zain Ahmed, by having the IRDC, the research communities will be properly managed and assisted in exploring new areas as the centre provides coordination and necessary services for successful researches, consultancy and assisting projects for commercialisation purposes.
Managed by over 40 staff, IRDC covers fundamental applied and development research in science and technology, social sciences and managed sciences.
Azni said to ensure quality research and consultancy, IRDC is also divided into seven divisions that are responsible for managing short-term research activities, long-term research grants, consultancy activities, financial management of consultancy, information management, IP and commercialisation.
Among its consultancy work are contract research, advisory services, designing and building, testing and training. Among other services are training and advisory services on IP protection and to facilitate the commercialisation of the university's IPs.
The commercialisation of the IPs will be through licensing, joint venture, equity participation, consultation and outright sales.
Speaking to Tech&U, Azni said the ongoing researches in ICT areas come from various topics such as system/software development, science system, networking, statistics, impact study, intelligent system, computer mathematics, and quantitative sciences. She added that lecturers from various faculties in UiTM, namely Faculty of Information Technology and Quantitative Science will be involved in the tech research work.
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