Mission:
- Knowledge transfer and building community through technology commercialization.
- Promote need-based research in WUS and disseminating it to stakeholders.
- Enhancing collaboration by strengthening university-industry linkages.
- Strengthening research through knowledge sharing, trainings and curricula development.
- Promote private-public entrepreneurship through applied and practical knowledge.
- Transfer of technology for capacity building.
Vision:
"Dissemination of technologies through innovative knowledge to the community"
Functions
ORIC intends to improve the environment for all researches and scholarships by:
- Supporting the strategic research directions and policies of the university
- Improving integration of research and education at all levels of the institution
- Increasing and diversifying external research funding
- Improve recruitment and retention of the top faculty
- Translating research for the public's benefit
- Improving and strengthening university-industry relationships
- Promoting entrepreneurship, technology-transfer and commercialization activities which improve and support the economy
- Promoting and improve multi-disciplinary research initiatives
Objective
- Establishing research culture at University
- Promoting technologies and innovations
- Updating faculty and students about new journal articles and news items related to their discipline
- Informing faculty about funding opportunities/resources
- Promoting multidisciplinary research
- Exploring and exploiting research and innovations for commercial use
- Building Linkages between the University and Industries
