About Intellectual Property

University Malaya (UM) is committed to building an entrepreneurial ecosystem that will accelerate the scaling of the outputs of its R&D through to their application to society; provide solutions to industry and open opportunities for high technology investment. UMCIE is a dedicated one-stop centre facilitating and coordinating these initiatives. UMCIE proactively protects and manages UMs broad intellectual property portfolio with a renewed emphasis on rapid licensing to industry. UMCIE also create strategic opportunities for investment into the latest technological advancements through the creation of technology and intellectual capacity-driven university startups. It is supported by a robust institutional policy (UM policy on IP and commercialization) as well an active and supported technopreneur and incubation programme.