Introduction

IoBM’s Office of Research Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC) is the focal point for all research, Innovation and Commercialization related activities of IoBM. The IoBM’s ORIC offers opportunities and infrastructure to exhibit the Innovation of Faculty and research students and simultaneously facilitates university-industry linkages for commercialization. The IoBM’s ORIC was notified by the Higher Education of Pakistan on December 12, 2017.

Under the guidelines and directives of HEC, ORIC has started working to organize the research activities by ensuring availability of well-established and fully functional offices with required staff as per minimum criteria. The ORIC is headed by a Director Research supported by Manager Research operation & Development, Manager University Industry Linkages and Manager, Technology Transfer, Manager Intellectual Property, a Communication specialist, and other staff members. By having strong coordination among proposed staff, ORIC will set the pace to catch the challenges in the field of Research and Innovation.

The ORIC provides strategic and operational support to the IoBM‘s research activities and will have an eternal role facilitating the university- Industry linkages. By and larger the ORIC is focal point for all research related activities of the institute. It facilitates the Institute’s researchers to promote their research work nationally and internationally by addressing the important factors for creating a research environment.