Ten Malaysian companies will get help to develop technology products for the global market by government applied research agency MIMOS.
MIMOS president and chief executive officer, Dato’ Abdul Wahab Abdullah, said that the ministry of science, technology and innovation (MOSTI), through MIMOS, has exchanged memorandum of agreements with 10 recipients from various local industries to develop products based on MIMOS technology platforms.
“MIMOS technology platforms developed at our labs continues to gain momentum from the indigenous industries,” said Wahab. “The transfer of MIMOS technology platforms is a testament to the value-add that they can bring to the technology recipients by enhancing their existing products and services, giving them the competitive edge in the challenging market space.”
MIMOS is an applied research organisation in information & communication technologies aimed at growing globally competitive indigenous industries. MIMOS pursues exploratory and industry-driven applied research through multi-stakeholder smart partnerships with universities, research institutes, Government and industries with a focus on frontier technologies.
Licensing programme to bolster local growth
“Through MOSTI’s technology licensing programme, MIMOS is helping to bolster the growth of globally competitive local companies and indigenous industries through its research and development in frontier technologies,” said Wahab. “MIMOS’ focus is on strategic market-driven product development and advanced technology which essentially involves the development of technology platforms for commercialisation by indigenous industries.
In addition, Wahab said that the 10 recipients of MIMOS technology platforms are:
- Alam Teknokrat (Skali) was awarded Semantic Technology Platform v1
- Biforst Technology was awarded Semantic Technology Platform v1
- Bill Adam Associates was awarded Semantic Personaliser Gear v1.0
- MutiaraCom was awarded Knowledge Exchange for precision agriculture;
- InfoValley Life Sciences was awarded Semantic Ontology Visualisation Browser
- In-Fusion Solutions was awarded Semantic Advisory and Diagnosis System
- Jaring Communications was awarded version 2 of Grid Computing
- CEEDTec was awarded WiWi Generation 1.5
- MIMOS Smart Computing was awarded Jen-ii, iDola and WiWi Generation 1.5
- PERNEC Integrated Network Systems was awarded WiWi Generation 1.5
He said that MIMOS also signed and exchanged memorandum of understandings with 13 local industries to gain domain for training and exposure to MIMOS’ technology platforms aimed at exploring possibilities of developing products for commercialisation.
“The primary goal of the technology transfer process is to encourage broad use of MIMOS-developed technology platforms among indigenous industries. This would enable the integration of MIMOS technology platforms into existing product lines and further develop the technology verticals to create new products,” said Wahab.
