KUALA LUMPUR, JUNE 25, 2009—Malaysian government applied research agency MIMOS has transferred frontier technology platforms to five indigenous industries for commercialisation.
MIMOS president and CEO Dato’ Abdul Wahab said that this was in line with the agency’s mission to grow globally competitive indigenous industries. “The ultimate goal is to drive technology from [being] a tool—that is maximising the utility of the technology—to an enabler—integrating multiple technologies and domain knowledge to form one system—and subsequently as a sector—pushing for technology to be adopted as a standard,” said Wahab.
MIMOS has received 76 technology transfer applications from potential technology recipients and the target is to have more than 100 by the end of this year, said Wahab. “MIMOS has already developed a total of 21 technology prototypes,” he said, during the technology transfer ceremony officiated by science, technology & innovation (MOSTI) minister, Datuk Maximus Ongkili.
Technology transfer is the process by which MIMOS licences its technology platforms to selected technology recipients, who will further develop these technology platforms into products and applications to serve each individual market vertical that they are currently serving.
MIMOS is the applied research centre in frontier technologies devoted to growing globally competitive indigenous industries. MIMOS pursues exploratory and industry-driven applied research through multi-stakeholder smart partnerships with local and international universities, research institutes and industries, and the Malaysia government with a focus on frontier technologies.
Net exporter of ICT products by 2020
Wahab said that the commercialisation of MIMOS’ applied research output is in line with the government’s aspiration to make information and communications technology (ICT) products Malaysia’s number one exports in the next decade, thus establishing the country as a net exporter of ICT by 2020.
“The transfer of MIMOS frontier technology platforms from our laboratories to the indigenous industries is a testimony of how MIMOS is building a vibrant technology eco-system, in our efforts towards commercialisation of home grown technologies as a vital source of national economic development and revenue for the country,” Wahab said.
The five technology recipients of MIMOS technology platforms below.
• Bill Adam Associates, which was given the licence for the Personalizer Platform On Demand (PPOD).
• InfoValley Life Sciences, which was given the licence for the Semantic Infosteology, a platform for computer application to be meaning-centric and knowledge-based.
• In-Fusion Solutions, which was given the licence for the Ontology Driven Intelligent Diagnoser Advisor (ODIDA), an ontology knowledge-based system for pediatric, cardiovascular and occupational health practitioners.
• Pernec Integrated Network Systems, which was given the licence for the MIMOS WiWi Gen 1.5 (a hybrid solution that provides WiFi as a hotspot and WiMax as a backhaul), Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) and Semantic Technology.
• CeedTec, which was given the licence for the MIMOS WiWi Gen 1.5, a hybrid solution that provides WiFi as a hotspot and WiMax as a backhaul.
“The five technology recipients were identified by MOSTI, under its technology licensing programme, in line with the national mission to increase the country’s commercialisation rate to at least 10 per cent from research and development initiatives undertaken by the public sector, as outlined in the Ninth Malaysia Plan, or 9MP,” said Wahab.
