Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (ORIC)

About ORIC

In pursuit of the mission and vision of office of research, innovation and commercialization, ORIC has the responsibility to guarantee that the ORIC is serving as a pivotal concatenation joint to encompass all the research activities of the university and to link research activities directly to the educational, social, economic and industry priorities under one roof. ORIC believes that there is a great field lurking out there in the industry which can be filled up by the academic research by bridging the industry need to the academic research and by promoting innovation and entrepreneurship. The mandate of the ORIC also includes to cartel university research activities and startups and promote them by mobilizing resources for research from national and international funding bodies, to remove impediment issues in research by strengthening institutional collaboration between university researchers and potential users of research in government, industry, and communities and resultantly to play vital role in university advancement and ranking.

ORIC responsibility

Source: HEC ORIC Policy 2021

1. Provide a one-stop office for supporting, advising, and monitoring the quality of research.
2. Strengthen institutional collaboration between university researchers and potential users of research in government, industry, and communities.
3. Mobilize resources for research from national and international funding bodies.
4. Establish an Ethical Institutional Review Board (IRB) in the university to undertake meticulous reviews of research proposals before submission to national and international funding bodies, to ensure that all research, especially research on human subjects, adheres to ethical guidelines.
5. Develop the university's IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) Policy, and ensure that the interests of researchers and faculty members are fully protected.
6. Identify, build, and market the intellectual property of the university personnel (faculty, students, and researchers) through a range of licensing and spin-off arrangements.
7. ORIC will provide the Advance Studies and Research Board (AS&RB) an annual report describing priority areas for research for graduate studies and highlighting the research achievements of the University.
8. Provide support to the researchers to access relevant research data about their district.

For further details, please refer to the ORIC Website