{"id":92,"date":"2021-06-29T10:10:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T10:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/dric\/?page_id=92"},"modified":"2021-09-21T08:18:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T08:18:25","slug":"incubation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/dric\/incubation\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovations, Technology Incubation and Commercialization Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The successful transfer of new technologies from the research laboratory to the commercial sector has many benefits: the creation of wealth, new jobs and new solutions to society’s problems:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Functions of the Innovations, Technology Incubation and Commercialization Unit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. To facilitate the creation of new techniques, technologies, products, new businesses and generating licenses and consultancy emanating from the University\u2019s original research projects.<\/li>
  2. To act as liaising office between the University and the Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Office (IPTTO).<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
    1. Advises and receives reports of inventions and assists in applications for intellectual property rights, mostly patenting for both CBU and non-CBU members.<\/li>
    2. Performs due diligence review on new invention disclosures, marketing and commercialization of the innovative new products.<\/li>
    3. Promote and communicate innovative activities through organized periodic exhibition of research output from the University.<\/li>
    4. To identify researches and projects across the University that demonstrate clear commercial or social value.<\/li>
    5. To stimulate technology incubation of new inventions in collaboration with Centre for Entrepreneurship.<\/li>
    6. To identify potential users (investors, industry, government and entrepreneurs) of University\u2019s research outputs with the aim of knowledge transfer\/sharing.<\/li>
    7. To provide technical and logistic support in the thematic and non-thematic research areas to generate Intellectual Property (IPs) rights.<\/li>
    8. To provide incentives and challenges to the Departments, Units and Centers to generate IPs from their original research works and showcase all the IPs so generated locally and internationally.<\/li>
    9. To create a stock of commercially viable knowledge-based product for the University.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      To attract contract research between the University and corporations, governments and others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The successful transfer of new technologies from the research laboratory to the commercial sector has many benefits: the creation of wealth, new jobs and new solutions to society’s problems: Functions of the Innovations, Technology Incubation and Commercialization Unit To facilitate the creation of new techniques, technologies, products, new businesses and generating licenses and consultancy emanating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-92","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/dric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/dric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/dric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/dric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/dric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/dric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/dric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions\/144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cbu.ac.zm\/schoolsAndUnits\/dric\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}