MSC Malaysia UniTech
MSC Malaysia Unitech is a pilot program that introduces hands-on experience in technopreneurship and commercialization to universities. The program is aimed to provide experimental and experiential learning on technopreneurship and commercialization for university community.
Objectives
1. Build technopreneurship competencies by providing hands-on experience working with the industry, locally and internationally,
2. Increase employment rate for science and technology graduates, through real life exposure locally and internationally,
3. Build a platform between the university, industry and relevant associations to ensure seamless efforts to build technopreneurship produce quality graduates and provide up-to-date courses to the university community,
4. Introduce an industry driven commercialization model to concept at the university.
Key Components of ¡®MSC Malaysia UniTech¡¯
Technopreneurship
- Curriculum alignment ¨C With the relevant Ministries support, MSC Malaysia Unitech offerings will be aligned to universities.
- Technopreneur Club ¨C The technopreneur club is a community driven group, supported by associations like Technopreneur Association Malaysia (TeAM) and New Entrepreneur Forum (NEF), and MSC Malaysia companies to :
- Drive activities, industry dialogues and training for the university community, manage the ¡®Technopreneur Lifelearning¡¯ and internship program,
- Monitor and track the progress of aspiring technopreneurs,
- Drive and manage sponsorship to run technopreneur club activities.
- Provide platform between the university community and industries.
- Technopreneur Life learning ¨C This is an attachment program for a period of one year for selected technopreneurs from university community. They will be posted at a company, which is a member of Technopreneur Association Malaysia (TeAM) or New Entrepreneur Forum (NEF). The posting is a part-time role with a maximum commitment of eight hours a week. The purpose of this program is to provide hands-on experience about running an ICT company and technopreneurship. This will also provide an opportunity for the aspiring technoprenuer to continuously improve his or her business plan. An allowance will be given to the selected aspiring technopreneurs.
- Internship ¨C This is a six months internship program where students will be posted at MSC Malaysia status companies, TEAM/NEF member of companies and Multinational Companies (MnC), be it locally or overseas. The program will be driven through the Technopreneur Club.
- Competition and Dialogue ¨C MDeC and its partners have existing competitions and industry dialogues sessions on technoprenuership and commercialization. They will continue to run these programs at the universities.
Commercialisation
- Pilot Commercialisation ¨C If the University has policy and processes in place, MDeC together with its partners will exploit top three ICT-related Intellectual Property (IP) of the university. An industry driven framework and guidelines for commercialization between university and MSC Malaysia companies will be developed and implemented upon success.
- Xchange Program ¨C This is a ¡®sabbatical¡¯ program for the faculty members or TLO officers to gain working experience at a ¡®productization¡¯ team of a Multinational Company (MnC). With the experience, the faculty members or TLO officers will have a better understanding of the how a corporation takes its R&D work to market.
Partner and Government Agencies
The program involves both local and international associations, MSC Malaysia companies and Ministries. Each party would be instrumental in funding and driving the implementation of the program. The associations are the key implementor for the technopreneur program at the university, while the MSC companies and the Multinational Companies would be the mentor and value adding partners.
PARTNERSHIP MODEL
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