Innovation Center is responsible for:
Research based on needs and by order:
- Ensuring optimal conditions for collaborations between the IU and external partners;
- Understanding the development strategies of external partners;
- Connect students, researchers, and staff to implement the orders, projects and research topics.
Start-up incubator:
- Incubating to early-stage startups, helping them achieve commercialization;
- Commercializing research results;
- Mentoring for all entrepreneur-driven ventures that members and ex members of the IU are about to start;
- The Center aims to use the benefit of the incubated ventures from IU’s expertise about Intellectual Property, new venture creation, investment raising and/or technology marketing.
Support creation of start-up companies and entrepreneurship activities
- Develop Startup Accelerators to facilitate proactive engagement of students, researchers, and staff;
- Support SMEs lacking of entrepreneurship skills and business capabilities;
- Understanding the development strategies of external partners;
- Organize promotional activities to expose startups to potential industrial partners or investors;
- Organize open-innovation workshop related to start-ups;
- Provide various types of support for SMEs: skills training, financial services, brand/product and marketing management, training consultancy…
Other activities:
- Deliver knowledge-based training on technology transfer, knowledge exchange and research commercialization issues for enterprises by internal partners in IU;
- Administer the Center’s staff and assets according to regulation;
- Perform any other duties that may be assigned by the Rector.
