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CEO’S COLUMN November 2014 - March 2015 Complimentary Issue Going Global MTDC continues to charter new directions for Malaysian companies overseas >16 The AUTM Attraction by Jane Muir A brief introduction to the Association of University Technology Managers by its Immediate Past President >14 Sentinext Combats Viral Diseases With Dr Jane Cardosa on why it is important for research to directly benefit the community >5 VIEWS ONE-ON-ONE EVENT CONFERENCE CHRONICLES Exploring IP with Sean Flanigan His thoughts on the importance of IP and how it affects our daily life > 15 MTDC in action > 16-17 AUTM ASIA 2015 6 -9 APRIL 2015 • Conference Programme > 10 & 11 Speakers Profile > 9 Berfikiran global, perkukuh rangkaian Interview with Petri Dish PPRN to optimise innovation, maximise productivity INTERNATIONAL FOCUS Kuala Lumpur - MTDC’s efforts have benefited from for the strong helical strand of relationship established by the three stakeholders of technology transfer – the Government, the universities and the industry. The three parties continue to work in tandem in what Professor Henry Etzkowitz from the H-STAR Institute of Stanford University terms as the Triple Helix, in his Plenary Speech at MTDC Technology Commercialisation Conference 2014 (MTCC14) which was held on 11 & 12 November 2014 at Hilton Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. YB Dato’ Seri Idris Jusoh presented MTDC Innovation Book Prize of RM51,500 each to the recipients - Universiti Putra Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. GLOBAL ASPIRATION In Tandem with Technology The first player, the Government continues to extend its entrepreneurial role through MTDC by investing in new products entering into unchartered market – a venture deemed too risky by conventional financiers. The second player, researchers from universities and research institutes have churned out more and more research output initiated by genuine needs of the industry. The third player i.e the industry, encouraged by the shift in research focus of the academia and incentives provided by the Government, have begun to establish more collaborative work with the public sector. There were arguments that the helical strand is actually made up of four components instead of three with the fourth player being the public. Some other school of thoughts believed the public is in fact the medium in which the triple helix strand is deeply immersed. Such was the intellectual discourse during the MTCC14. Attended by industrial players, researchers, policy makers as well as IP lawyers and university students, it was agreed by each stakeholder that there have indeed been tremendous developments in technology transfer and commercialisation in the country. While this is so, it was also mutually agreed that there was so much more that need to be done. Transcending Borders MTDC CEO elaborates on how the nation can move forward through technology innovation >4 my.linkedin.com/malaysian-technology-development-corporation
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C E O ’ S C O L U M N

November 2014 - March 2015 Complimentary Issue

Going GlobalMTDC continues to charter new directions for Malaysian companies overseas >16

The AUTM Attraction by Jane MuirA brief introduction to the Association of University Technology Managers by its Immediate Past President >14

Sentinext Combats Viral DiseasesWith Dr Jane Cardosa on why it is important for research to directly benefit the community >5

V I E W S

O N E - O N - O N E

E V E N T

C O N F E R E N C E

C H R O N I C L E S

Exploring IP withSean FlaniganHis thoughts on the importance of IP and how it affects our daily life > 15

MTDC in action > 16-17

AUTMASIA 20156 -9 APRIL 2015

• Conference Programme > 10 & 11• Speakers Profile > 9

• Berfikiran global, perkukuh rangkaian

• Interview with Petri Dish

• PPRN to optimise innovation, maximise productivity

I N T E R N A T I O N A L F O C U S

Kuala Lumpur - MTDC’s efforts have benefited from for the strong helical strand of relationship established by the three stakeholders of technology transfer – the Government, the universities and the industry. The three parties continue to work in tandem in what Professor Henry Etzkowitz from the H-STAR Institute of Stanford University terms as the Triple Helix, in his Plenary Speech at MTDC Technology Commercialisation Conference 2014 (MTCC14) which was held on 11 & 12 November 2014 at Hilton Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.

YB Dato’ Seri Idris Jusoh presented MTDC Innovation Book Prize of RM51,500 each to the recipients - Universiti Putra Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

GLOBAL ASPIRATIONIn Tandem with Technology

The first player, the Government continues to extend its entrepreneurial role through MTDC by investing in new products entering into unchartered market – a venture deemed too risky by conventional financiers. The second player, researchers from universities and research institutes have churned out more and more research output initiated by genuine needs of the industry. The third player i.e the industry, encouraged by the shift in research focus of the academia and incentives provided by the Government, have begun to establish more collaborative work with the public sector.

There were arguments that the helical strand is actually made up of four components instead of three with the fourth player being the public. Some other school of thoughts believed the public is in fact the medium in which the triple helix strand is deeply immersed. Such was the intellectual discourse during the MTCC14. Attended by industrial players, researchers, policy makers as well as IP lawyers and university students, it was agreed by each stakeholder that there have indeed been tremendous developments in technology transfer and commercialisation in the country. While this is so, it was also mutually agreed that there was so much more that need to be done.

TranscendingBorders MTDC CEO elaborates on how the nation can move forward through technology innovation >4

my.linkedin.com/malaysian-technology-development-corporation

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Negeri Sembilan - MVE Technologies Sdn Bhd (MVE) was awarded MTDC’s Business Start-up Fund (BSF) in 2011 to commercialise choke and control valves for oil, gas and petrochemical industry.

They knew from the start that the industry they were hoping to service has very little tolerance towards error. Their choke valve has the ability to reduce upstream flow and this in turn results in a better pressure reduction capabilities. However, the industry would not take risk in trying out new inventions by unknown start-up companies because an error could result in million-dollar loss not to mention the risk on human lives. The margin allowed for errors is so thin that new players would have to be armed with strong undisputable technical and field data to be considered as vendor.

Johor - Asma Agro Sdn Bhd (Asma Agro) received MTDC’s Technology Acquisition Fund (TAF) in 2007 to acquire tissue culture technology for fruits, specifically MD-2 pineapple and Cavendish banana, from a company based in Thailand. The company was awarded Bionexus Status in the same year and through the R&D funding granted by Malaysian Biotech Corporation, a production laboratory was set up with production capacity of 10 million plantlets per annum. The laboratory is located at UTM-MTDC Technovation Centre in Johor.

The technology from Thailand was transferred successfully and by the end of Asma Agro’s TAF Fund Agreement’s tenure with MTDC, they were already selling plantlets to various local planters.

In line with the objective of TAF to increase the technology capability of local companies through acquisition of foreign established technology, Asma Agro, having acquired the platform technology, developed their own protocols and ventured into research work on other fruiting plants.

Kuala Lumpur - Incorporated in 2008, Superceed (M) Sdn Bhd provides hosted contact center solutions, which enable companies to manage contact center capacity elastically and cost effectively. Their product that is trademarked as SUPERCEED combines technology innovations (Hosted Contact Center) and human capital (Virtual Workforce) to revolutionise the SaaS and BPO industries. They provide an IP-based, multi-channel contact center system, combining routing, analytics, personalisation and optimisation features, designed for virtual work and cross-utilisation of global resources.

The company was awarded with MTDC’s Commercialisation of R&D Fund (CRDF) in 2009 to commercialise their Unified Virtual Contact Centre System. The project was completed successfully in 2013. At the point of closure the company was already making waves in Singapore. The first contract awarded to them was from a major telco system integrator from Bangladesh.

Due to its need for growth, the company was granted the Business Growth Fund to assist with their expansion. Today, their list of clients in Singapore include MVNO Telco, and Outsourced Contact Centre Singapore project VentureMedia Consultancy Pte Ltd.

Year 2015 will witness the company’s progression into other markets such as Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia and Vietnam.

Local Invention in Turkmenistan’sHydrocarbon Exploration Project

Agri goes Techie

Virtual Success in Singapore

MVE was not intimidated by the stringent requirements imposed because they were very confident in their products. In December 2014, after rigorous audit process, MVE Tech was accepted in the Vendor Development Programme (VDP) of Petronas Nasional Bhd (Petronas). Petronas is Malaysia’s oil and gas company wholly owned by the Government and vested with the entire oil and gas resources in Malaysia.

One of the few projects already awarded to the company was to supply their choke valves to Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd for a project in Turkmenistan. Petronas Carigali Sdn Bhd is Petronas’s subsidiary looking after its hydrocarbon exploration activities.

Indonesia - Sawipac Sdn Bhd (Sawipac) is a company based in Kluang, Johor with 19 years experience in providing innovative palm oil milling process solution. In January 2012, the company was awarded MTDC’s Commercialisation of R&D Fund (CRDF) to commercialise empty-fruit bunch compost pelletising system that they developed in-house. One of Sawipac’s co-founder, Neo Teck Siong was featured in our MTDC News issue of January-Jun 2013.

Another major milestone was met recently when the company was appointed as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the development of palm oil integrated complex in Kampar, Indonesia for PT Sungai Pinang Malindo, a joint effort entity between a local party and a Malaysian investor.

The RM44.0 million investment will comprise a palm oil mill with capacity of 60 metric tons per hour (MTPH), a refinery of 300 MTPH and a 3-megawatt biomass power plant. The construction period is 18 months and once completed, would have the capacity to receive supply from the approximately 50,000 hectares of planted area in the vicinity.

The appointment of Sawipac as the EPC contractor for the project in Indonesia marks the company’s ascending reputation as a solution provider in the industry and regional recognition for its technology content.

A ground breaking ceremony was held on 12 March 2015 attended by honourable guests that included the Bupati of Kampar, Bapak Jefry Noer, the Malaysian Consular to Riau, a representative of Indonesia’s Ministry of Agriculture and MTDC’s Chief Executive Officer, Dato’ Norhalim Yunus.

Selangor - Bioalpha R&D Sdn Bhd (Bioalpha) is MTDC’s CRDF recipient company since 2013. The company’s major activity is in the conduct of R&D and manufacturing of health supplement products from Lignosus rhinocerous or more known traditionally as Tiger’s Milk mushroom. The CRDF awarded to the company was to commercialise polysaccharides extracted from the highly prized mushroom. Bioalpha’s parent company, Bioalpha Holding Berhad recently launched the company’s prospectus in conjunction with the company’s listing on the ACE Market of Bursa Malaysia Securities Bhd. It will offer 100 million new shares at 20 sen each to raise RM20 million which will be ploughed into R&D, capital expenditures, repayment of bank borrowings and business expansion. Bioalpha Holding Berhad is an integrated health supplements company. Apart from Bioalpha R&D Sdn Bhd which specializes in fermentation process of medicinal mushroom and other R&D activities, its other subsidiaries include companies specialising in the development and management of herb farms, marketing and distribution of the health supplements, even in the trading and management of retail pharmacy and outlets. Other than the sales of health supplements under house brands such as Apotec, Nushine, Alphanex and Bexlimas, Bioalpha is also involved in the manufacturing and sales of semi-finished products and products as an original design manufacturer (ODM). Their products are sold in Malaysia as well as regional countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Australia, Indonesia and Cambodia.

The management of MTDC witnessing the ground breaking ceremony for PT Sungai Pinang Malindo Integrated Palm Oil Mill Complex. Sawipac Sdn. Bhd., one of MTDC’s grant recipients was the key player in the venture.

Jeffrey Tan servicing one of their local clients, RedOne Network Sdn Bhd.

Their forte, however, remains to be in MD-2 pineapple and Cavendish. The company later shifted their business model from the selling of plantlets into the selling of MD-2 pineapples, trademarked as Dinar Pineapple.

The pineapple’s skin is golden in colour when it is ripe. The pulp is sweeter, more complex, less fibrous and contains four times more vitamin C than regular varieties at less acidity. The pineapple gives more value per planting area as the leaves are spineless and can be planted closer to each other than other varieties. In addition to that, the Dinar pineapple ripens evenly and naturally. Once harvested, the pineapples can be stored longer (30 days) as opposed to other varieties (21 days) and are able to survive in cold storage for up to two weeks.

Asma Agro will soon be launching the first harvest from its trial plot in Jelebu. The first batch is expected to bear 20,000 fruits and will increase in time.

The fruits will be delivered to Iran, Turkey and Thailand.

SuccessfulInternational Ventures

An AlphaPerformance

N A T I O N N A T I O N

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TranscendingBorders

The long awaited synergy among relevant parties, the university, industry as well as the administrators begin to take to new heights as initiatives have been on the rise - a crucial step to ensure Malaysia technological ventures are ready for the global market.

The Innovation and Technology Managers Association (ITMA) was registered on 9 September 2014 with the Registrar of Society, Malaysia as an association that aspires to bring together the technology transfer community including researchers, lawyers, industry players, funders and policy makers together in a network that shares knowledge, experience and best practices. ITMA had its first Annual General Meeting on 17 February, 2015 at Ministry of Education, Putrajaya.

Earlier this year, the Public Private Research Network (PPRN) was launched on 24 February 2015 by Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak. Under the PPRN concept, higher tertiary experts/academia would at their level best provide and pitch solutions and trouble-shoot companies’ technical problems. These solutions could be varied and may include solving company’s manufacturing processes, refining products’ formula and technical trouble-shooting. The initiative will be spearheaded by Ministry of Education with an allocation of RM50,000 per project.

The role that MTDC would assume in the new initiatives is in fact part and parcel of its outfit since inception. Since its formation, MTDC has been laying the foundation for greater cooperation among players in the commercialisation eco-system. MTDC’s goals then and now are to facilitate the commercialisation of publicly funded research results and help the development of Malaysian technology-based companies through collaboration with the universities and research institutions. As the annals of history can attest, MTDC has been the interface between academia and industry, linking the two so that when a university churns out research outputs, the industry will take up the outputs for commercialisation. MTDC will continue to harness its efforts to match the two, as well as buttress other institutions in the commercialisation and innovation eco-system.

MTDC is optimistic that the university-industry collaboration will grow from strength to strength. As an agency that promotes and funds commercialisation, MTDC will actively facilitate research outputs of universities for industry’s consumption. This effort is in-sync with MTDC’s corporate slogan – The Complete Equation.

In order to live up to its slogan, MTDC can neither work in silos nor work alone. It needs partners who believe in the sanctity of contributing to nation’s wealth through expediting and increasing rate of commercialisation. It seeks partners to identify and train a pool of entrepreneurs who will in turn take up university research outputs for mass production. It demands partners who can generate significant innovative ideas that changes the equation and ones that are entities in the commercialisation of ideas.

For MTDC, the university and industry are crucial partners that are indeed the cog that bind the wheel, and are the important instrument and catalyst to make things happen! They are part of the Triple Helix concept that expounds university-industry-government relationships. The Triple Helix lies in the thesis that the potential for innovation and economic development in a knowledge society lies in a more prominent role for the university and in the hybridisation of elements from university, industry and government to generate new institutional and social formats for the production, transfer and application of knowledge. This vision encompasses not only the creative destruction that appears as a natural innovation dynamics, but also the creative renewal that arises within each of the three institutional spheres of university, industry and government, as well as at their intersections. Obviously, for successful university-industry collaboration, it is imperative that tertiary institutions keep abreast of the challenges facing the industry, and stay informed about new technologies. And the best way for this to happen is for the institutions (universities/research institute) to work with the industry and government agencies to develop R&D to suit its needs.

MTDC is commited to making innovation and its subset, commercialisation, contribute to the nation’s wealth. In the last four months, MTDC has been promoting its services both locally and abroad, leading companies to cross the borders and enter new market frontiers; imparting its commercialisation experiences\ to the less developed regions and cementing ties with the Eastern Europe countries. These are part of MTDC soft landing business and strategic approach to help MTDC grant recipients and partners access new markets. Only recently, MTDC signed a Memorandum of Collaboration with the RHB Islamic Bank Berhad to mark the start of an initiative to provide increased support and access to funding for technopreneurs. On the entrepreneurial development front, the MTDC Graduate Entrepreneurship programme (Symbiosis)has gone into its ninth series, the latest involving Majlis Amanah Rakyat (MARA) and Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL). Overall, under the Symbiosis programme, MTDC has trained more than 400 graduates and has established 80 start-up companies to commercialise market-driven research outputs of local universities.

While MTDC is looking forward to the new challenge that all the initiatives would bring, it will not shirk its responsibility towards enhancing innovation and commercialisation eco-system. It shall continue to work and build world-class companies through the existing services and at the same time introduce new value-added services to serve the companies and partners.

Stay on board and work with us - together we will move the nation forward.

MTDC is optimistic that the university-industry collaboration will grow from

strength to strength.

Sentinel Against Viral DiseasesSentinext Therapeutics Sdn Bhd, a company based in Pulau Pinang, Malaysia is involved in the development of vaccines against infectious viral diseases. It was founded by scientists and supported by a network of scientists from the US, Europe and Australia. Sentinext Therapeutics Sdn Bhd was named “Most Innovative Biotech of the Year” at the BioPharma Asia which was held in Singapore, 23-25 March 2015.

Sentinext is one of the companies that receive investment from MTDC through its venture capital arm and the Malaysian Life Sciences Capital Fund (MLSCF) in 2009. The Series A investment assisted the company through the pre-clinical and process development stages of its bivalent prophylactic VLP vaccine against Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD). This is an important disease that is caused by infection with two main viruses - Enterovirus 71 (EV71) and Coxsackievirus A16 (CVA16). Other vaccines under development include a polio virus VLP vaccine under a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a VLP vaccine against EV-D68 which has recently emerged as an infection of concern in the USA.

C E O ’ S C O L U M N O N E - O N - O N E

Dr Jane Cardosa has served on a number of international scientific boards and committees, has been a member of the WHO Advisory Group on dengue and other flavivirus vaccines; was on the Scientific Board of the Bill & Belinda Gates foundation initiative, Grand Challenges in Global Health, and currently is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Grand Challenges Canada.

Far from being a plain Jane, Dr Cardosa is an excellent researcher with a strong international reputation. The fact that this through-and-through scientist has put on her new entrepreneurial hard-hat, is inspiring.

We had a one-on-one chat with her at her premise one fine afternoon. Every time a question was posed, she would sit back. A smile would grace her face as she formed an answer in her head before leaning forward to deliver her point. Economical in words, straight to the point, honest and kind – would be my description of her answers. One feels very at-ease around her – it is obvious she tells things as it is.

And despite knowing how extraordinary the woman is, beneath all the layers, she is firmly rooted - and this must be the most extraordinary thing about her.

Dr Jane Cardosa -the super woman in disguise.

Mariatini of MTDC talks to Dr Jane Cardosa, founder and highly successful tehcnopreneur.

You are a researcher who co-founded a company. Researchers are typically seen as someone who is happiest inside their laboratory than anywhere else. The boardroom is probably a place that has almost never been associated with a researcher. How did you arrive at that decision?

I have always been the kind of researcher who tries to do work that has relevance to the community in which I work. When I was an academic I spent a large portion of my research time working closely with the Ministry of Health to support public health activities such as outbreak investigation and control, thus using our specialist knowledge to benefit the rakyat. This is neither easy nor cheap, and in the course of my career I have had to obtain grants from medical charities such as the Wellcome Trust in the UK to support this activity. I also collaborated with industry from a very early stage of my life, and thus was exposed to the requirements of bringing a pharmaceutical product to market.

When I reached retirement age, I decided that it was time to move into the product development field, and coincidentally, Malaysia’s Biotechnology Initiative was announced at around the same time, so it became obvious that my experience could contribute to this effort, and the decision was not a difficult one for me.

How do you think the training you received as scientist and researcher assists you in making business decisions?

I never did have any formal training in making business decisions. I have depended on common sense, knowledge about epidemiology and medical needs to make these decisions.

Venturing in a business with products that are still under development is a risky affair, especially when the product in question is biotech in nature and as such require long gestation period. Such venture is certainly not for the faint-hearted. What motivates you?

Well, I have never been faint-hearted for sure! But what motivates me at this stage of my life can be summarised as follows:

(a) I believe I have a responsibility to develop solutions/instruments for public health intervention that benefit our populations;

(b) I think it is important to show that these solutions can be developed by those of us who live and work in the region and not necessarily have to be developed in the west and imported; and finally

(c) I believe that it is important to raise the credibility of Malaysian biotech in the global context.

Sentinext is supported by leading scientists from various countries. How is this possible for a fledgling start-up? Are there any concerns at all about distribution of intellectual property rights especially since the work transcends beyond the borders of continents?

It is always extremely difficult to take a path-finding approach but this has to be done if we are ever to develop the capacity and expertise in country. Therefore, in order to ensure that Sentinext is able to develop our vaccines here in Malaysia to a high international standard, we tap the expertise and experience of the best people in the field from anywhere in the world by taking them on as consultants. These consultants bring very specific expertise to the table – for example – development of the manufacturing process for our very novel virus-like particles. In the process we learn and take on the necessary knowledge in-house, thus slowly but surely building capacity locally.

We have no concerns about intellectual property as all our consultants have contracts wherein all IPR reside in

Sentinext where the research is being done. As far as IPR is concerned it is important to have on board the right patent attorneys who understand the product and who can help us draft and prosecute patent applications to ensure the best

protection.

There seems to be an increased interest among researchers in Malaysia in entrepreneurship. There was a time when inventions were licensed off to entrepreneurs and the role of researchers remains as technical advisors on as-needed basis. We see a gradual shifting in the role of Malaysian researchers now - a more active participation in start- ups and spin-offs, as well as a better understanding of technology transfer and commercialisation. What is your comment on this. What would be your advise to researchers who wish to follow your steps?

I applaud the efforts to get research scientist thinking about how to bring effective solutions to the world. The interest that is being generated today is a good sign. Industry benefits when researchers have genuine interest in innovating to solve real industrial problems. The research community has a lot to offer industry and the gap between the industry and academia can be overcome by more interaction and collaboration. Similarly in my career I have always stressed collaboration, both local and international, and this has led to very fruitful exchange of ideas and skill sets, and this approach is sure to work in the industrial context as well.

On the question of research scientists wishing to become entrepreneurs and jump into this other world of business - well, I really don’t know what to say. A lot depends on the person as well as the team he or she builds. I believe the most important element in the equation that results in success is the right team moving forward. Making sure the ethics and work style of the team you build is not subverted by more mercenary motivations is going to be difficult but certainly necessary to ensure that your goals are met.

Dato’ Norhalim Yunus

Bringing international experts to our shores for world class solutions

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It has long since been established that the fastest way (perhaps the only way) for Malaysia to realise the vision it sets for itself is by increasing the capacity and capability of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). However, conducting research and development (R&D) may not be the kind of activities that the SMEs can well afford. Often, the cost to engage researchers or to establish an R&D facility would not be within the financial means of the companies.

There were already investments made in the universities and research institutes for R&D and ideally, they would be the supplier of technology for the SMEs. For the purpose, the Government of Malaysia through MTDC offers a funding scheme to promote such transactions. The Commercialisation of R&D Fund abbreviated as CRDF, covers the cost of technology acquisition from local entities – the R&D of which can be public or private funded.

Certain technologies though, may not yet be available locally or there are better and more advanced technology developed beyond the country’s shores. Developed countries may have established work in areas that countries such as Malaysia don’t have the means to venture into yet. In such instances, acquisition of the technologies will be a cheaper and faster route to take than if they were developed locally.

Acquisition of foreign technology is based on the assumption that once a technology is developed, it can be applied anywhere.

THE INTERNATIONALTRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY

The fleet management system developed by a local university in collaboration with one of MTDC’s grant recipient company has been successfully commercialised in the country with sales of more than RM50million in the first five years since they started. The technology was then transferred to Indonesia, Phillipines, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and South Africa where it experienced similar success.

In 2007, the tissue culture method and media formulation developed by a group of researchers in Thailand allowed for improved propagation of plantlets that later gave higher survival rate when transplanted – as compared to existing tissue culture methods available in Malaysia. A Malaysian company acquired the technology and although some modifications and localisations had to be made, the transferred technology applied well in Malaysia. With the technical capacity they have now, the company is able to further expand the usage of the technology and currently enjoying the competitive edge that it provides.

Another Malaysian company founded by scientists, ventured into the vaccine industry. Instead of becoming the production house of vaccines through acquisition of technology, the company invested in its own R&D because it aspires to develop vaccines for ‘less-commercialised’ diseases such as dengue and viral encephalitis. There are

other experts needed in the conduct of the R&D. Some tests and facilities are too expensive to establish locally, thus the company established a network of experts from various other countries – each working in their own domain in their own lab – where knowledge is freely transferred and exchanged within the domain provided in a Research Collaboration Agreement they signed.

It is imperative to understand that when a technology crosses the border, it is more than just about a transfer of equipment, formulations and blue prints. More often than not, a transfer of technology encompasses codified know-how as well as knowledge that are not codified. While there are substantial amount of knowledge explicitly described in a patent document, there are also tacit knowledge associated to it that may be more expensive and difficult to transfer. The matter is aggravated further when the intellectual property (IP) in question is not documented as a patent. For example, it is observed through the cases that are in MTDC’s database that patented technology is in fact valued more than the tag price of technology that is protected as trade secret.

For technologies to cross border successfully, the technology provider has to ensure that the IP position is strong. Imitation is also a form of technology transfer but certainly this is not a mode of transfer desired by technology owners.

In addition to that, technology transfer can only take place if the recipient has the absorptive capacity for it. The technology recipient has to have a team with adequate competency to receive the technology and effectively put

it to use. In some cases, culture and language can also hamper the transfer. There was a company funded by MTDC to acquire an RFID technology from Korea. Although the Malaysian team was made up of engineers from relevant field and blue prints

were duly handed over, the inability of both teams to converse in a common language retarded the progress of transfer as crisis could not be attended to immediately and pertinent information could have lost its importance when translated especially by a non-technical person.

The assistance provided by MTDC to local SMEs for the acquisition of foreign technology has been offered in the form of Technology Acquisition Fund or TAF since 1997. To date, almost RM300 million has been awarded to 200 companies involving transfers from the United States of America and United Kingdom to India, Korea and China.

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Jane Muir, USAAUTM’s Immediate Past President, Jane is the Associate Director in the technology licensing office of the University of Florida.

Kee Wai Fun, MalaysiaWai Fun is Industry Principal for Technical Insights at Frost & Sullivan and has over six years of research & consulting expertise. Her forte is in project management, technology road mapping.

Brian Law, MalaysiaBrian is a partner in the Intellectual Property Practice Group, Malaysia and his portfolio is mainly focused on enforcement of IP rights. He is currently the president of the Licensing Executive Society Malaysia (LESM)

David Wei-Lin Wang, TaiwanDavid is currently a professor at the Department of Financial Law of Ming Chuan University with his J.S.D from Washington University, Taiwan.

Michael M. Avedesian, CanadaFormer President, Dr. Avedesian holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in Chemical Engineering from McGill University, and a Ph.D. in engineering from Cambridge University.

Dzulkifli Abd Razak, MalaysiaDzulkifli is currently the 14th President of the International Association of Universities (IAU), a UNESCO-affiliated organisation, based in Paris.

Sansanee Chaiyaroj, ThailandThe professor’s research interest is immunology of infectious diseases. Sansanee is the Vice President for Research and International Relations at Mahidol University.

Sean P. Flanigan, CanadaPast President and active member of AUTM since 2006, Sean obtained his Bachelor of Arts (Political Science) from Carleton University and his Bachelor of Laws, Common Law from University of Ottawa.

Dato’ Redza Rafiq Abdul Razak, MalaysiaDato’ Redza helms economic development initiatives in the Northern Region of Peninsular Malaysia as the Chief Executive of the Northern Corridor Implementation Authority (NCIA).

Mahmoud Mohamed Sakr, EgyptProf. Sakr obtained his PhD in Plant Biotechnology in 1995, professorship in plant biotechnology in 2006 and was the former Vice President of the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology.

Jaehoon Rhee, KoreaCEO of Gyeongbuk Technopark of Korea, Dr Rhee is the Chairman of Korean Technopark Association and holds various position including the Key Infrastructure Technology of National Science and Technology Council.

Takafumi Yamamoto, JapanTakafumi is the CEO & President of TODAI TLO, Ltd., which is a technology licensing organisation of the University of Tokyo.

Lennora Putit, Malaysia

Lennora Putit holds both PhD and M. Phil qualifications from the University of Warwick, Coventry in England, United Kingdom. Currently attached with UITM, Malaysia.

Hadi Purwadaria, IndonesiaHadi was the founder of the Incubator Center for Agribusiness and Agroindustry (ICAA) of Bogor Agricultural University (IPB).

Muhammed Tani Tabiin, SingaporeMuhammad Tani heads the Biomedical Sciences Division at A*STAR responsible for the commercialisation of Biomed and MedTech technologies for centers funded under A*STAR.

Keith Jones, UAEKeith Jones is the Director of Industry Engagement & Technology Transfer at Khalifa University with extensive entrepreneurial experience and has helped launched many university start-ups.

Gregory Pogue, USAGregory is Interim Deputy Director and Senior Research Scientist at the IC2 Institute of The University of Texas, Austin where he leads research and implementation programs surrounding technology commercialisation.

Graham Kendall, UKGraham is the Dunford professor of Computer Science at The University of Nottingham and was appointed as Vice-Provost at the Malaysia Campus in 2011.

Guy Proulx, SingaporeGuy is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Transpacific IP, the only full-service IP company based in Asia. Since 2004, the company has grown ten-fold with offices throughout Asia.

Marc Sedam, UKMarc is Associate Vice Provost of Innovation and New Ventures, University of New Hampshire since 2010, he has extensive background in intellectual asset management among others.

Samsilah Roslan, MalaysiaSamsilah has been involved in the promotion and commercialisation of Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)’s innovations for seven years. As the Director of Putra Science Park, she is set to deliver new innovations to the public.

Gianfranco Matteucci, SingaporeGianfranco is a registered Patent Attorney in Singapore and Europe specialising in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, chemistry, biomaterials and nanotechnology.

Su Jun Lim-Higbie, USAA Licensing Associate at the University of Hawaii Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development, Su Jun holds a Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, New York.

Wong Poh Kam, SingaporeA professor at the NUS Business School, Wong obtained two BSc.’s, an MSc. and a Ph.D. from MIT and was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley and a visiting scholar at Stanford University and Oxford University.

Athena Prib, AustraliaAthena is a business development expert with experience at Melbourne University and New South Innovations (NSi). Currently part of the GEmaker team, she is commited to improving technology transfer.

Dato’ Norhalim Yunus, MalaysiaDato’ Norhalim is the Chief Executive Officer of Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (MTDC) and has extensive experience in all stages of commercialisation of universities research results.

H Mehmet Alpatli, TurkeyH Mehmet Alpatli is currently the manager of the incubation centre at Istanbul Sehir University, “incuba.city”. He is also a contracted expert of the European Commission Research Executive Agency.

Yvonne Kathrine GoldsworthyAas-laland, NorwayWith a background in applied ethics, sociology and innovation, Associate Prof. Aas Laland is a member of the University of Agder’s TTO committee responsible for developing a Technology Transfer.

Prof. Dato’ Dr. Asma Ismail, MalaysiaProf. Dato’ Asma obtained her PhD in the field of Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA and was conferred Honorary Doctor of Science from University of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.

Azley Abd Razak, UKAzley is a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Law, University of the West of England. His main area of study is on the relationship between the university-industry and government.

Sidney Yee, SingaporeSidney Yee is currently CEO for the Diagnostics Development Hub as well as Senior Vice President of the Investment and Spinoff Management division at A*STAR ETPL.

Angelina Yee, MalaysiaAngelina is currently the Director/Industry Collaborator at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus and a committee member in two focus groups in the formulation of the Malaysian11th Master Plan.

Jane Cardosa, MalaysiaJane is the founder of Sentinext Therapeutic Sdn Bhd, a company involved in the developement of vaccine against infectious viral diseases. She is an award-winning scientist.

Afaque Riaz Ahmed, PakistanAfaque Riaz Ahmed is the founder and chairperson of The Karachi Institute of Technology and Entrepreneurship (KITE) as well as founder of Fonebooth Networks, Inc, a telecommunications company based in Silicon Valley.

Amran Rasli, MalaysiaProf. Dr. Amran has a PhD in Society, Business & Globalisation from Roskilde University, Denmark and is an expert in communications.

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Ministry of Science, Technology andInnovation (MOSTI)Blok C4 & C5, Kompleks CPusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan PersekutuanWilayah PersekutuanPutrajaya 62662MalaysiaTel : 603 8000 8000Fax : 603 8888 9070http://www.mosti.gov.my

Ministry of Education Malaysia (MOE)Blok E8, Kompleks EPusat Pentadbiran Kerajaan Persekutuan62604, PutrajayaMalaysiaTel : 603-8000 8000Fax : 603-8000 8001http://www.moe.gov.my

Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)Pejabat Naib Canselor Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400 SerdangSelangorTel :603-8946 6000Fax :603-8948 7273http://www.upm.edu.my

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)43600 UKMBangiSelangorTel :603-8921 5555Fax :603-8921 4097http://www.ukm.my

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Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) 40450 Shah AlamSelangor Darul EhsanMalaysiaTel :603-5544 2000http://www.uitm.edu.my

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AUTM ASIA 2015PROGRAMMEPRE-CONFERENCE DAY: MONDAY, 6 APRIL 2015 |VENUE : IMPIANA HOTEL, KUALA LUMPUR

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Welcoming Remarks by Dato’ Norhalim Yunus, CEO of MTDC

Plenary 1: The Impact of Research and Technology Commercialisation | Venue : Plenary Theatre Auditorium (PTA)

Speaker: Jane Muir, Immediate Past President of AUTM

Break & Press Conference | Venue : VIP Room 302 & 306

Plenary 2: The Entrepreneurial University | Venue : Plenary Theatre Auditorium (PTA)

Speaker: Marc Sedam, UNH Innovation

Lunch Break | Venue : Exhibition Hall 4

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Talk 1.1:Practice at Istanbul Sehir University Incubation Centre: The Importance of Investment Readiness

Speaker:H Mehmet AlpatliIstanbul Sehir University, Turkey

Talk 1.2:Patogen discovery to Vaccine Developement:A Malaysian Story

Speaker:Jane CardosaSentinext Therapeutics Sdn Bhd, Malaysia

Talk 1.3:Challenges of Technology Start-ups -The Experience of Singapore

Speaker:Sidney YeeA*STAR ETPL, Singapore

Talk 1.4: Techvision 2015: Top 50 Multi-Billion Dollar Technologies and Innovations Reshaping our World in 2015

Speaker:Kee Wai Fun Technical Insights, Frost & Sullivan, Malaysia

Talk 2.1:Making Deals from the Center of Pacific Ocean

Speaker:Su Jun Lim-Higbie University of Hawai’i, Hawai’i

Talk 2.2:Understanding the Dynamic of Enabling and Inhibiting Factors of University-Industry-Government Relationship

Speaker:Azley Abd RazakUniversity of the West of England, UK

Talk 2.3:Industry-Academia Collaboration: What Works

Speakers:Graham Kendall & Angelina YeeNottingham University Malaysia Campus,Malaysia

Talk 2.4:Mind to Market: Fueling Singapore’s Innovation Pipeline

Speaker:Muhammed Tani Tabiin Agency for Science, Technology & Research (A*STAR), Singapore

Talk 3.1: Entrepreneurship – Innovation Prep

Speaker:Yvonne Katrinne Goldsworthy Aas-lalandUniversity of Agder, Norway

Talk 3.2:Doing it Symbiotically

SpeakerZainul Fadziruddin ZainuddinMTDC, Malaysia

Talk 3.3:Jumpstarting Entrepreneurship: An Innovative Academic Approach

SpeakerAfaque Riaz AhmedInstitute of Technology and Entreprenurship, Pakistan

Talk 3.4:Technology Entrepreneurship in Abu Dhabi, Strategies and Approaches for Development in a Young Economy

SpeakerKeith Jones Industry Engagement & Technology TransferKhalifa University, Abu Dhabi

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DAY 3: THURSDAY, 9 APRIL 2015 |VENUE : KLCC CONVENTION CENTRE

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Plenary 3: Social Innovation - A Transdisciplinary View | Venue : Plenary Theatre Auditorium (PTA)Speaker: Tan Sri Dato Dzulkifli Abd Razak, President of the International Association of Universities (IAU)

Plenary 4: The Patent Sale Process | Venue : Plenary Theatre Auditorium (PTA)Speaker: Athena Prib, GEmaker Pty

Plenary 5: Trends and Threats: Reflections on my Time as President of AUTM | Venue : Plenary Theatre Auditorium (PTA)Speaker: Sean P. Flanigan, Past President of AUTM

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Conference Dinner | Venue : Ballroom 1

Discussion Panel 1: The Technology Transfer Network – Connecting the Nodes | Venue : Plenary Theatre Auditorium (PTA)

Moderator: Sean P. Flanigan

Panelists: ASPA, MTDC, ITMA, ITRI, LESM

Discussion Panel 2: Cross-boundary Collaboration | Venue : Plenary Theatre Auditorium (PTA)

Moderator: Mohammad Farish Nizar Othman

Panelists: Mahmoud Sakr (Egypt), Sidney Yee (Singapore) & Hadi Purwadaria (Indonesia)

Closing Speech by Dato’ Norhalim YunusAUTM Asia 2016Jane Muir, Immediate Past President of AUTMLunch & End of Conference | Venue : Grand Ballroom

Session 4:Cross-BorderTechnology Transfer

Session 7:The Technology Recipientt

Lunch Break | Venue : Grand Ballroom

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Talk 4.1:The Innovation Reef Model – Learning from Austin and its Best Practices

Speaker:Gregory PogueIC2 Institute, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Talk 4.2:Cross-Border Technology Transfer

Speaker:Marc SedamUNHInnovation, USA

Talk 4.3:Innovating Innovation the Mahidol University Way

Speaker:Sansanee Chaiyaroj  Mahidol University, Thailand

Talk 4.4:The Malaysian Experience

Speaker:Dato’ Asma Ismail Ministry of Education, Malaysia

Talk 7.1: Becoming Part of the Technology Value Chain inKoridor Utara

Speaker:Dato’ Redza Rafiq Abdul RazakNorthern Corridor Economic Region (NCER)Malaysia

Talk 7.2:Technology Transfer of the University of Tokyo

Speaker:Taka Yamamoto Todai TLO LTD, Japan

Talk 5.1:Economic Impact of Universities/Research Institutes R&D Results

Speakers:Jason Feehily & Graham Kendall Nottingham University, UK

Talk 5.2:Commercialisation: The Role of Innovation Managers and Technology Transfer Professionals

Speaker:Samsilah RoslanInnovation & Technology Managers Association (ITMA), Malaysia

Talk 5.3:Using Patent Analytics to Identify and Benchmark Innovation Strategy of Universities

SpeakerWong Poh KamNUS Entreprenurship Centre, Singapore

Talk 5.4:The Successful Factors of Start Up Companies

SpeakerDarid Wei-Lin WangMing Chuan University, Taiwan

Talk 8.1: The Experience of Egypt in Technology Transfer

Speaker:Mahmoud Mohamed SakrThe Academy of Scientific Research & Technology (ASRT), Egypt

Talk 8.2:Commercialisation and its Outcome on University Performance

Speaker:Lennora Putit Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

Talk 6.1:Strategies and Considerations for Effective IP and Technology Transfer Transactions

Speaker:Guy ProulxTranspacific IP Group Ltd, Singapore

Talk 6.2:Intellectual Property & Public Institutions - a Patent Attorney’s Perspective

Speaker:Gianfranco MatteucciMarks & Clerks, Singapore

Talk 6.3:Effective Preparation for Patent Litigation

Speaker:Brian LawLicensing Executive Society Malaysia (LESM), Malaysia

Talk 6.4:Incubating University Innovations - A Successful Business Model

SpeakerMichael M. AvedesianMcGill University, Canada

Talk 9.1:Incubation: How Clustering Facilitates Technology Transfer and Commercialisation

Speaker:Jaehoon RheeAsian Science Park Association (ASPA), Korea

Talk 9.2:Incubating Technology Based Start-ups : Indonesian Experiences

Speaker:Hadi Purwadaria Division International, Association of Indonesian Business Incubators, Indonesia

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Intellectual property or “IP” is a growing and evolving part of our every day life. But it hasn’t always been that way. In fact when I graduated from law school I would joke that I couldn’t even spell “IP”. Why would I bother when, as a trial attorney, it didn’t affect me and IP was something that the technical guys in the basement offices looked after.

Along the way my practice changed and I took on a greater role in new companies and eventually I joined a startup and guess what was central to the success of that company: IP.

This is just one way that intellectual property can sneak its way into peoples’ lives. But are you even aware? You routinely click the “Accept” button when installing software and who among us has ever said “Disagree” when iTunes asks our consent to install an application. Our interactions with IP are growing at an ever increasing rate and arising from increasingly novel sources.

Most people would likely confess that they had never heard of the BRCA1 gene and the associated test to identify a risk of breast cancer until the Spring of 2013 when Hollywood star Angelina Jolie announced that she had undergone the test and was having surgery as a result.    For technology transfer professionals, the Summer of 2013 the BRCA1 gene came into focus for a completely different reason: the decision of the U.S. Supreme to invalidate patents on the human genes such as the one that lead to the test that changed Ms. Jolie’s life.    These patents, which were based on discoveries made at the University of Utah, had been licensed to a company that then invested its resources to develop

the test and bring it to the market. The University and the company saw value in these patents. For others this patent was important, not because it was valuable, but because it was seen as being immoral to patent part of the human body or dangerous because it prevented some women from having access to the test.

Imagine one piece of IP having the ability to impact so many different l people in so many ways and you will understand the task that a technology transfer professional faces every day.

Technology transfer has grown from a task to a service to a job to a profession over the past forty years and through the hard work of the individuals who call themselves RTTP, or Registered Technology Transfer Professionals, new and innovative products are coming to the market every year and having direct impact on the lives of people around the world.

University research leads to all sorts of innovation such as the encryption that makes your Blackberry so secure, the sports beverage

by Sean P. Flanigan

Sean Flanigan is one of the speakers at AUTM Asia Kuala Lumpur 2015. He will be talking on the ‘trends and threats’ he saw while serving as President of AUTM. He will also be moderating a discussion panel to discuss what it means to be part of a technology transfer network.

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INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME.

KNOWING WHAT WORKSby Azley Abd RazakSurely it is about managing different perspectives, don’t you think?

In one of my interviews collecting data for my research on the relationship between university-industry-government in Malaysia, one of my respondents told me that is akin to:… an analogy of a TV set: the industry will see the solid flat screen, the university will look at the process inside the TV and the government will look at the messy wires and cables.

By large, the main issue within this relationship is how the different parties (or actors) look at the issue from different perspectives. In a way, it is all about managing frustrations within this relationship. In my view, it has to be something more complex than this, something a bit more sophisticated, so to speak. After all, the Malaysian government and governments from all over the world have put in a lot of effort and resources devising policies to encourage the development of the universities-industry-government relationship.

From my studies (about the university-industry-government relationship in Malaysia), I have found several factors such as policies, procedures and processes within university, commercialisation issues, and awareness on the issue of intellectual property, differences in work cultures etc. However, findings in my study do suggest that it all comes to lack of understanding of other actor’s perspective and inability to fulfil their requirements’. Numerous outcomes and examples are mainly about the frustration and of the different actors in this relationship.

It can be seen how the industry and government actors often feel that universities are “too academic” and produce research which is not relevant, practical and commercially viable.

“It is people in the university, our scientists who, sometimes are not active, who are committed to the research but never really think about other impacts such as commercialisation, socially and economically. They have a one-track mind.”

The industry respondents also expressed frustration towards universities. A senior manager from a MNC stated:

“..some of the staff and universites are not ready. In fact, the work culture itself is telling you that they are not ready, because people who work in the industry have a whole mindset and culture that are totally different from people who are working in the universities. We [industry] talk about urgency, timeliness, getting on time to market. I don’t think our universities are tuned in to those frequencies of culture. So when you want to deal with them, it is a problem, they have different cultures”.

On the other hand, respondents from university often seem to believe that the other actors do not understand their culture and requirements. For instance, academicians perceived that the government and industry do not fully understand the research process. Respondents from universities’ commented that they could not cope with the pressure of delivering the services/products in accordance with industry’s timetable because of their other responsibilities such as teaching. One respondent from a university summarised the difference in work cultures and philosophies:

“Industry wants the profit in a short time, but research will normally take about 6 years, it is a different culture of work”. Granted, the university actors were more than aware of their own limitations in meeting the needs of industry. The dilemma arising from competing commitments within universities such as teaching and research restricted their ability to develop a more active relationship with the industry.

The frustrations towards each other (and in some parts within the actors themselves) appeared to originate from not being able to understand each actor’s perspectives, roles and views. Again, it is all about managing perspectives

Azley Abd Razak is one of the speakers at AUTM Asia Kuala Lumpur 2015 where he will be discussing the dynamics of university-industry-government relationship and discuss the inhibiting as well as the enabling factors. A Malaysian, Azley is attached to the University of the West of England as Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Business and Law.

unless I am missing some parts of the equation on this scenario.

The good news is that the state of university-industry-government relationship in Malaysia is changing and developing. The actors within this relationship have mainly noticed that there has been progress in developing this relationship. I call this stage the “Signs of progress and restricted evolution”. There are signs of progress; however, it is also commented that it is of a restricted nature. The government remains a dominant actor and is often seen dictating and imposing ambiguous and unclear terms on the other actors. The Malaysian government continues to act as the dominant sphere in the development of knowledge and innovation.

Also due to major obstacles to collaboration between industry and universities, it appears that the two parties have an ‘arm’s length’ relationship with each other. Where there is evidence of universities in Malaysia having an active relationship with industry, often this is limited to educational development and ad hoc consultancy activities. Universities reported struggling to find industrial partners to commercialise their research. R&D collaboration between universities and industry has not yet reached the level which would be expected and the findings also suggest that universities are struggling to in commercialising their research.

Many Malaysian universities are no longer acting as just teaching institutions as they are conducting research and setting up incubators (with strong support from the government). There are also some signs of them striving to establish lasting relationships with industry.

THINK AGAINyou consume when working out, many of the prescription drugs you are given when you are sick and vaccines to prevent you from succumbing to disease. Basic research in Universities and labs is crucial to the sustainability of local, national and international markets and technology transfer professionals are working every day to put that research to work.

So the next time you think that intellectual property doesn’t have anything to do with you; think again.

The AUTMAttractionBy Jane Muir

The Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) is the global leader in the education and development of professionals who help make academic technology and knowledge transfer possible, and bring ideas to life that make the world a better place. AUTM was one of the first organisations to focus specifically on university patent issues and the protection of intellectual property — even before legislation offered guidelines for federally funded academic research, university patents and developing ways for discoveries to actually reach and benefit the public.

From its inception in 1974, AUTM urged the adoption of consistent government policies regarding funding and licensing of academic innovation so that new technologies could be licensed and products benefiting the public could be developed. Six years later, the U.S. Congress passed the Bayh-Dole Act, which fostered access to university research by providing a new and uniform way to handle and transfer federally sponsored research results at academic institutions. This year we celebrate the 35th anniversary of that historic legislation.

AUTM has worked tirelessly to achieve its mission to promote, support and enhance the global academic technology transfer profession through education, professional development, partnering and advocacy. AUTM assists with professional development and the sharing of best practices through numerous courses and resources such as the Technology Transfer Practice Manual. Publications such as the annual AUTM Licensing Survey quantify the impact that technology transfer has had on university innovation and economic growth. AUTM’s Better World Project promotes public understanding with more than 500 stories of how academic research and technology transfer improve the lives of people around the world.

These resources have made AUTM the global leader and go-to resource for advancing discoveries and bringing research to life. Membership in AUTM has grown to more than 3,200 members, representing managers of intellectual property from more than 300 universities, research institutions and teaching hospitals around the world as well as numerous businesses and government organizations.

AUTM’s leaders, members and colleagues welcome participants to AUTM Asia 2015, and we look forward to many more years of working together to help the global knowledge transfer community build expertise, promote the development of academic innovation and, ultimately, improve the quality of life for people around the world.

To learn more about AUTM visit www.autmvisitors.net.

Jane Muir is Immediate Past President of AUTM and one of the speakers at AUTM Asia Kuala Lumpur 2015 where she will be delivering a Plenary Session on the impact of research and technology commercialisation. She will also be delivering the Pre-Conference Workshop to discuss ‘Technology Marketing’ together with Athena Prib from GEMaker.

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Workshop on Demand-driven Innovation Project by PPRNKuala Lumpur - The Public-Private Research Network (PPRN) is a programme under the Ministry of Education. On 19 November 2014, a workshop on Demand-driven Innovation was conducted by PPRN, which exposed participants from both the industry as well as the universities on the mechanics of the programme.

University Start-Up Conference 2015(UStart 2015)Bangsar - MTDC participated at University Start-Up conference organised by University of Malaya Centre of Innovation and Commercialisation (UMCIC) as speaker, participant and exhibitor on 20 & 21 January 2015 at Pullman, Hotel. Some of MTDC’s grant recipients and Symbiosis companies took part in the exhibition as well. They are Zecttron Sdn. Bhd., Etlinegra Sdn. Bhd., Novapave Sdn. Bhd. HCA Products Sdn. Bhd. and Cell Tissue Technologies.

Public Private Research Network (PPRN) LaunchingPutrajaya - MTDC participated in the launching of Public Private Research Network (PPRN) as an exhibitor. MTDC’s companies that exhibited as well were Malaysian Phosphate Additives and Jariz Technologies Sdn. Bhd. The launch was held on 24 February 2015 at PICC

MTDC Technology Commercialisation Conference 2014Kuala Lumpur – With the theme “Strategic Partnership: Time for a Rethink”, the MTDC Technology Commercialisation Conference 2014 drew 500 participants from various fields. Launched by Minister of EducatIon II, YB Dato’ Seri Idris Jusoh on 11 November 2014 at the Hilton KL, the event featured 25 speakers at the 2-day conference including Professor

Henry Etzkowitz from the H-STAR Institute of Stanford University terms as the Triple Helix and YBhg Emeritus Professor Tan Sri Omar Abdul Rahman a Senior fellow and Foundation President of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia.

The presentation of mock cheques to MTDC Book Prize recipients from Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) was a welcome highlight. The event also witnessed an MoU exchange between Gigalink Solutions Sdn Bhd and PT Bangunindo Tekusa Jaya from Indonesia.

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Funding Clinic for Oil & Gas SMEs together with MPRC

Serdang - A funding clinic was held with Malaysian Petroleum Resources Corporation (MPRC) last 26 November 2014 at the UPM-MTDC Technology Centre Serdang. The event briefed MPRS members on the fund facilities that are available for the oil and gas sector.

MTDC Technology Commercialisation WorkshopSelangor - This workshop was held from 9 to 10 December 2014, at the UKM-MTDC Technology Centre, Bangi to help participants gain further knowledge and better understanding on technology transfer and commercialisation. Participants include researchers from Universiti Tun Hussein Malaysia (UTHM) and UPM.

Road2Funding (Sabah Region) Sabah - Road2Funding is a programme organised to create awareness among targeted audience on the various services available at MTDC for technology-based businesses and researchers. Held on 12 February 2015 at One Borneo Hotel, Sabah was Road2Funding’s first destination.

MARA-UniKL-MTDC Symbiosis: Phase II (Training) Bangi - MARA-UNIKL-MTDC Symbiosis is the ninth Symbiosis programme organised. There were 44 participants at the Phase II training where they discussed various topics from leadership and creativity, to strategies in the protection of intellectual property. The training was held from 26 February to 19 March 2015 at NIOSH.

UiTM-MTDC-Symbiosis Hi Tea Serdang - The session held on 6 February 2015 at UPM-MTDC allowed the budding new entrepreneurs a venue to discuss their progress and aspirations, concerns and hopes, with various experts within MTDC. Discussion topic include market trends, opportunities available, marketing strategy, fund raising and others. UiTM-MTDC-Symbiosis is the 7th batch of the Symbiosis programme.

Road2Funding (Sarawak Region) Kuching - was the next stop for Road2Funding after Sabah held on 5 March 2015 at Grand Margherita Hotel, Kuching. Ms. Christina Foo, one of MTDC’s Board of Directors was one of the speakers.

Memorandum of Collaboration between MTDC & RHB Islamic Bank BerhadKuala Lumpur - MTDC and RHB Islamic Bank Berhad entered into a Memorandum of Collaboration to mark the start of an initiative to provide increased support and access to funding for technopreneurs on 6 March 2015 at Royal Chulan Hotel.

Malaysian Technology Expo (MTE) 2015Kuala Lumpur - Dato’ Norhalim Yunus, CEO of MTDC officiated the Malaysian Technology Expo (MTE) 2015. This event organised by Malaysian Association of Researchers and Scientists, gathered Universities and Industry to showcase their research and innovations. Held on 12 Feruary 2015 at Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur.

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1. The average and median age of company founders when they started their current companies was 40.

2. 95.1 percent of respondents themselves had earned bachelor’s degrees, and 47 percent had more advanced degrees.

3. 15.2% of founders had a sibling that previously started a business.

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ENTREPRENEURSHIPAS A CAREERby Muthu Singaram

Entrepreneurship can play a major role in alleviating poverty, unemployment and underemployment in many developing countries.

Entrepreneurship is becoming an increasingly popular alternative career choice in the current economic slowdown. If you are planning to become an entrepreneur you will not be alone and will have plenty of company.

Many have gone the entrepreneurship route due to external factors including layoffs, frustration in their current workplace culture, or the need for greater flexibility in their lives. However, it is most important to go with your own “internal factors, ” which include having the passion, wanting to be independent, wanting a sense of accomplishment, building an enterprise, enjoying freedom, a burning desire to make a profession out of a hobby and enjoying the challenges.

Entrepreneurship is not for all. You may most likely be aware that many new ventures fail and probably one out of three will not be in business after five years. The dot com ventures were the success stories of the late 1990s and early 2000s, but it is most unlikely that you will become successful overnight. It requires hard work, determination, vision, need to dedicate long hours and endless energy which is more realistic in today’s entrepreneurship.

In today’s world which is becoming flatter due to countries opening up, technology accessibility, increasing competitiveness, and mature products, there is an urgent need for creativity and entrepreneurship. Fortunately, the attractions to become an entrepreneur is becoming much easier especially since there is a shift from a predominantly manufacturing to a service-based economy. Due to this, cost and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs have lowered considerably. It is worthy to note that new ventures are today job creators like the Silicon Valley, Silicon Alley, Route 128, and such industrial parks are the envy of the world.

Entrepreneurship serves as an anchor to many businesses and economy. It can also play a major role in alleviating problems of poverty, unemployment and underemployment in many developing countries in today’s world. However, entrepreneurship will thrive only in a culture and environment which encourage entrepreneurs to take a chance and fail. At present, the government has been encouraging young people to take the plunge into entrepreneurship.

Muthu Singaram is a parallel entrepreneur having been involved in several startups over last 20 years. His company VibaZone has strong tractions in Canada, India and Malaysia. His experience and passion in entrepreneurship resulted in the birth of a book on entrepreneurship titled, Entrepreneurship: A Hands-on Guide To Starting Your Business

Three factors are key to entrepreneurship. Firstly, opportunity, secondly people and thirdly, available resources. Entrepreneurs are people with high managerial and creativity skills. Sales people are low in both, managers are high in managerial skills and inventors are high in creativity. This does not mean that you must be exceptional in all skills. You can form a team to strengthen your skills, as entrepreneurship is all about building a team. It cannot be a single person entity.

Why look at entrepreneurship? Entrepreneurship creates new jobs, new industries (examples: cellular phone, internet shopping). Entrepreneurship provides economic and social mobility. It creates equity, produces great leaders and contributes to society. With competition increasing and technology becoming more efficient, jobs are decreasing. Hence entrepreneurship is on the rise. Jobs are also decreasing as many women are forced to look for work as one salary is not sufficient to run a family. Jobs are not for life. Nowadays people are looking for results and hence the change is common. Rearranging in companies to reduce cost is being done and therefore contract and temporary work are increasing. As an entrepreneur your hours of work can be flexible.

The positives of an entrepreneurship is that you control your own future, have the satisfaction of making your own money and not for someone else, put your talent to use and most importantly you will be doing something that you enjoy.may have to do all the work by yourself which may result in a hard life.

Bill Gates, a Harvard dropout had a dream. He wanted every desktop in the world running on his software and that dream has made him one of the richest people on the planet.

That is the power of dreams. They will help you to face challenges, handle failure, help you build confidence to face ambiguity and make the impossible possible.

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We are in the middle of an era of tremendous technological change. It’s an oft-used saying that there is more computing power in the phones in our pockets than put the first man on the moon in the 1960s. Even if it’s true it doesn’t make it any less amazing. And where did many of these computing advances come from? Universities. From the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (Iowa State University), Project Whirlwing (MIT), the Harvard Mark-1 and the EDSAC (Cambridge University) at the advent of computing, to the first internet browser (developed at University of Illinois), and all the way to the Wi-Fi standards (CSIRO, Australia) that are in billions of devices today, the innovations that drive the global economy are increasingly originating from the research laboratories at the worlds universities.

In healthcare we see the same thing. Over 150 new FDA approved vaccines, drugs and/or new indications for existing drugs were discovered through research carried out in public sector research institutions making a tremendous difference in patient lives. But equally important is the impact this research pipeline is to companies around the world who license them. In a study on the origins of new drugs approved by the US Food and Drug Administration between 1998-2007, Dr. Robert Kneller has reported that 24% of the total pipeline of 252 drugs were licensed by universities to pharma/biotech. When you consider the novelty of these new therapeutics, 31% of the first in class compounds were university licenses. Finally, if we consider orphan drugs—drugs that treat small populations but represent a significant unmet need in global health—40% of these drugs were university licenses and represent half of all licenses to the global biotech industry.

Though the goal of technology transfer is primarily one of use (i.e. getting ideas in use for the public benefit) the economic development benefits of an active and engaged technology transfer profession are significant. A recent report by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), titled “The Economic Contribution of University/Nonprofit Inventions in the United States: 1996- 2013,” estimated that “during this 18-year time period academic-industry patent licensing bolstered U.S. gross industry output by up to $1.18 trillion, U.S gross domestic product (GDP) by up to $518

billion, and supported up to 3,824,000 U.S. jobs.” AUTM’s own data from 2013 shows the same impressive impact with participating universities reporting $22.8 billion in product sales from licensing and 719 new products created—nearly two every day.

The Morrill Act permitted the federal government to purchase land to donate to each state for the sole purpose of establishing universities to teach “agriculture, home economics, mechanical arts, and other practical professions”. These “land-grant” institutions were in many ways the first time that a layperson might obtain further formal education to solve problems closer to home. And home for most people was the family farm.

In 1860 farmers represented approximately 48% of the US labor force for making the establishment of land-grant colleges an enormously effective way to get new technologies into the hands of farmers, including new ancillary inventions like the cotton gin or horse-drawn steel plows designed to make farming (or the conversion of farm products) more productive. But the tipping point of the US agricultural revolution can be directly attributed to the Smith-Lever Act of 1914 which established a partnership between the land-grant colleges and the US Department of Agriculture to provide for cooperative agricultural extension. The USDA describes the purpose of the act as follows, giving us a definitive roadmap:

At the heart of agricultural extension work, was:

• Developing practical applications of research knowledge.• Giving instruction and practical demonstrations of existing

or improved practices or technologies in agriculture.

And furthermore, during the Great Depression, state colleges and the USDA emphasised farm management for individual farmers. Extension agents taught farmers about marketing and helped farm groups organise both buying and selling cooperatives.

In 1866, the establishment of UNH improved the lives of the population of New Hampshire by providing tools, technology, and instruction necessary to make the dominant industry more productive. The cooperative extension service survives today as a major competency of the University with Dean Pike summing it up best: “The principal partner

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL UNIVERSITYby Marc Sedam

is the University of New Hampshire. As a state land-grant university it is charged by Congress to conduct resident instruction, research, and outreach to people beyond the classroom.”

The effects of Cooperative Extension are shown clearly in the above chart. Starting with the passage of Smith-Lever in 1914 there is a slow increase in productivity of farms as both acreage and fertiliser use stay relatively constant. But when farmers started to combine fertiliser with technological change on a regular basis in the 1930s (first hybrid seed corn), 1950s (machines exceeded farm animals for the first time), 1960s (Plant Variety Protection Act, i.e. plant patents), and through the introduction of GMO plants in the 1980s, the growth curve changes from gradual to nearly linear

continuing to this day; and all while the total number of farmers dropped from 31 million to just over 2 million.

Entrepreneurial Extension-The 21st Century University

Today’s university is a very different place from the one envisioned by the Morrill Act or even by Benjamin Thompson. The agricultural economy of the 1860s has been replaced with the knowledge economy of today whose “crop” is intellectual property. We’re now more focused on copyrights than cows, and patents

than plows. As we fulfill our mission to grow the research and knowledge base of UNH, our knowledge output will grow exponentially and the institution must construct a framework to identify, manage, and use these proceeds efficiently and productively. Yet our responsibility is exactly the same today as it was in 1866--to extend the academic knowledge and skills of the University to the “people beyond the classroom.”

And so I propose a new model for considering UNH’s technology transfer and other activities loosely defined as “economic development” and the creation of a new core competency for the University...that of Entrepreneurial Extension.

Associate Vice Provost of Innovation and New Ventures, University of New Hampshire since 2010, has extensive background in intellectual asset management, among others. He is one of the speakers for AUTM Asia Kuala Lumpur 2015 where he will deliver a plenary talk on the topic of entrepreneurial university on Day 1. He will also be discussing cross-border technology transfer on Day 2.

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MTCP Facilitates Malaysia-Khazakhstan CooperationKazakhstan - The Fact Finding Mission to Astana and Almaty Kazakhstan was organised by MTDC from 9-13 February 2015 with the purpose to explore possible collaboration on commercialisation initiatives and advisory potentials for solutions of transfer and commercialisation of technology in Kazakhstan.

Scheduled meetings were held with High Level Senior government officials from Government Ministries & Agencies, Leaders of Chamber of Entrepreneurs, Heads of Public Universities and Research Institutes to discuss capacity building programmes organised by MTDC under Malaysian Technical Cooperation Program (MTCP). Meeting involving the Ministries was attended by His Excellency, Y. Bhg. Dato’ Hidayat Abdul Hamid, Ambassador with Malaysian Embassy Astana.

The MTCP training programme for 2015 commences with MTCP – MTDC Commercialisation of Technology Workshop for Policymakers from Kazakhstan, which will be held from 6-10 April 2015 at Impiana KLCC Hotel in Kuala Lumpur.

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Visit by National Council for S&T Policy Vietnam (NCSTP)Kuala Lumpur - The National Council for S&T Policy Vietnam (NCSTP) visited MTDC headquarters last 23 December 2014. Based on the discussions held, both organisations were poised to charter path for future collaborations.

Malaysian Expo Week Cairo 2014Egypt - MTDC was invited to participate as an exhibitor at the expo, where it showcased 15 of its companies last 10 to 13 December 2014. The event was held at the Cairo Festival City, New Cairo. A key criteria was that companies were selected based on their market potential in Middle East. The companies include MGV Industries Sdn. Bhd., Phytogold Sdn. Bhd., HCA Products Sdn. Bhd. and Seleraku Sdn. Bhd.

MTDC’s booth was visited by the Ambassador Malaysia to Egypt, HE Dato’ Ku Jaafar Ku Shaari.

Exploringthe CISKazakhstan - MTDC through the international Science, Technology and Innovation Centre (ISTIC) and the National Centre of Science and Technology Evaluation of Kazakhstan delivered a workshop on Preparing R&D Proposal and Technopreneurship for the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Countries in Astana, Kazakhstan late last year.

Subsequent to the training, discussion are ongoing on potential collaboration between Malaysian companies and the industry as well as research communities of the CIS countries.

CIS countries include Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldovar, Rusia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

A Riau WelcomeIndonesia - A delegation of MTDC staff, representatives from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Waris Nove, a MTDC grant-recipient company visited Universitas Riau, Indonesia where they were given a warm welcome by the university’s rector, Prof Dr Ir H. Aras Mulyadi. During the visit, the focus of the discussions was the commercialisation of R&D and tech transfer activities, possible areas for collaboration as well as the upcoming AUTM Asia 2015 conference being organised by MTDC.

ASRT Commercialisation and Technology Valuation WorkshopCairo - ASRT Commercialisation and Technology Valuation Workshop provided the participants better understanding in technology transfer, commercialisation, and valuation of technologies. Apart from that, they also learnt how to plan business model that works, and how to pitch it effectively at the event held from 13 to 17 December 2014.

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