{"id":2510,"date":"2014-10-07T03:52:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T03:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=2510"},"modified":"2015-04-14T03:53:40","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T03:53:40","slug":"research-universities-lauded-for-increasing-revenue-through-rd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/tahun-2014\/october-2014\/research-universities-lauded-for-increasing-revenue-through-rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Universities Lauded For Increasing Revenue through R&#038;D"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Ftahun-2014%2Foctober-2014%2Fresearch-universities-lauded-for-increasing-revenue-through-rd%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=2510&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"newsitem_tools\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"createdate\">TUESDAY, 07 OCTOBER 2014 08:56<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/ResearchU01.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin<br \/>\nPix Abd Ra&#8217;ai Osman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scudai, Johor, 2 October 2014 &#8211; Five national research universities have generated revenues worth RM3.6 billion through research and development (R&amp;D) between 2007 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Education Minister II Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh said the revenues were earned through the commercialization of research products valued at RM1.25 billion, of which and R&amp;D focusing on the 12 National Key Result Areas (NKRA) accounted for RM205.14 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Idris was speaking at a press conference after opening the exhibition of successful research universities, titled \u2018Research Universities Success Series 4: Generating Wealth Through Commercialisation of R &amp; D&#8217; at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) here today. The National University of Malaysia (UKM) participated in this exhibition as one of the research universities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, since 2007 until last year, the government had approved an allocation of between RM50 million and RM90.8 million a year under the provision of management to every research university worth RM2.363 billion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During this period, RM48.7 million was raised through commercialisation of 1,650 intellectual property licenses generated through R&amp;D activities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The amount is expected to increase to RM122 million by 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Idris said, 77 downstream companies had been established to enable commercialisation of innovation from university researchers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The increase in research and development activities among research universities are expected to raise the establishment of downstream companies to 80 per year in 2020,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the same period, a total of 182.720 jobs were created.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two-day exhibition featuring successful research universities and was the fourth in a series of five events. This exhibition focuses on Inventions and commercialisation hosted by UTM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For each event every research university is responsible for promoting science and innovation to help the country achieve developed nation status by 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">UKM was given the responsibility to showcase economic and social impact and will host the exhibition in November.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Four universities including UKM were awarded Research University status in 2007 under the 9th Malaysia Plan and UTM in 2010 under the 10th Malaysia Plan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All five institutions that are increasing focus on graduate studies, especially at the PhD level as a catalyst for research and development.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/ResearchU02.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus2014\/ResearchU03.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, 07 OCTOBER 2014 08:56 By Saiful Bahri Kamaruddin Pix Abd Ra&#8217;ai Osman Scudai, Johor, 2 October 2014 &#8211; Five<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/tahun-2014\/october-2014\/research-universities-lauded-for-increasing-revenue-through-rd\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2511,"parent":1150,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2510","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2513,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2510\/revisions\/2513"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}