Objectives

ORIC has self-adopted its mandate to enhance the environment for all research activities and scholarship schemes by:

• 1. Developing the university’s strategic research directions and policies.
• 2. Increasing and diversifying external research funding.
• 3. Improving integration of research and education at all levels of the university.
• 4. Transforming research into useful products for public benefit.
• 5. Strengthening university-industry relationships.
• 6. Nurturing entrepreneurship, technology-transfer and commercialization for sustainable economic development.
• 7. Stimulating and augmenting cross-cutting and multi-disciplinary research initiatives
• 8. Modeling incentives and awards schemes for valued research and publications.
• 9. Drafting intellectual property policy of AU

Purpose

• 1. Identify research opportunities for faculty members
• 2. Facilitate faculty to apply for research grants
• 3. Legal, administrative and financial management support of research grants
• 4. Contribution towards economic growth through research and innovation
• 5. Support commercialization and licensing of the university research products
• 6. Develop public-private partnership for mutual benefit
• 7. Liaison with national and international research institutes
• 8. Promotion of the research culture amongst students and faculty
• 9. Bridge the gap between Industry and academia for joint research projects
• 10. Upscale the research publications in impact factor journals
• 11. Liaison with national and international research funding agencies
• 12. Patent filing, scrutiny and fulfilling other legalities in the matter
• 13. Identifying opportunities of collaborations with national and international academia
• 14. Creating University-Industry linkages
• 15. Establishment of Research and Business Incubation Center