Keynote Speakers
Dr. Noor Ashikin Mohd Rom
Multimedia University
Multimedia University
Dr. Noor Ashikin Mohd Rom is a Senior Lecturer at Faculty of Management, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia. She received her MBA and Ph.D from Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia and graduated her Accounting and Finance degree from Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom. She has vast experiences in corporate sectors; banking, investment and insurance industries for more than thirteen years. Dr. Noor Ashikin is co-founder of Nura Food Innovation, a spin-off company established under Entrepreneurship Department Centre (EDC), Multimedia University. The social entrepreneurship business aspiration is the outcome from research on poor and low income studies. The spin-off company has won a few gold medals from the international competitions and has gain the reputation from its innovation. She is very active in research and has spearheaded more than six external research grants and a team member for another five external research grants. Most of her studies are on the poverty, low income communities, welfare, financial protection, zakat (alms) and micro-franchise. She has voluntarily conducted sequence of financial trainings to street traders via Knowledge Transfer Program (KTP).
How to Spin-off Your Research Project?
There are millions of academic research have been produced by researchers around the world. There are many new journals emerged to cater the enormous volumes of the research outputs. These research may have the opportunities to be commercialized thus contributing to publics’ needs. One of the means to commercialize the outcome of the academic research is by the creation of spin-off companies. The spin-off company is an outcome of an entrepreneurial process based on research carried out by researchers in the universities. The formation of a university spin-off usually from a research-based of creative idea or technology and innovation of processes or products based on the intellectual property. The spin-off projects normally lead by a university’s researcher or a team of researchers (entrepreneurs). Nowadays, there are many government and agencies’ backed programs, such as new seed funds, incubators and crowdfunding with the objective to provide funding to the new spin-off companies or entrepreneurs. Most of the universities today has transforming themselves into an entrepreneurial university by playing a major role in social and economic development. This entrepreneurial activity has mainly been carried out by transferring business ideas and technology to industry.