Ts. Dr. Rozzeta Dolah
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia
Title: Technopreneur’s Winning Mindset: A Nanoscale view of Research- to-Revenue
Biography
Biography: Ts. Dr. Rozzeta Dolah
Abstract
Being an entrepreneur for a scientist or academician is not an easy transformation. As innovation is crucially needed to transform knowledge into applications for society contribution, academicians are facing a challenging journey to ensure research commercialization is successfully delivered. Herecomes the growth mindset to transform an entrepreneur in science and engineering into a term used quite often nowadays, known as "Technopreneur". The talk presents the real hands-on experience of Dr.Z NanoFuel TM patch challenging route in nanotechnology research innovation such as: 1. Why Research-Development-Commercialization-Innovation (RDCI) is important in translating research-to-revenue? 2. How to change the routine of an academician into a succesful technopreneur? 3. Hurdles faced by biofuels-nanotechnology technopreneur? 4. What are the documents needed to set up a university's spin-off or start-up company? 5. How to face the red tapes in building the spin-off? 6. What are the elements in Business Model Canvas (BMC)? 7. Professorship vs. Technopreneur – How to juggle? The university ecosystem is the most fundamental entity to ensure the succesfulnes of research commercialization. Technology Transfer Office (TTO) is responsible to translate the innovation into a business entity. Besides the TTO, the researcher or the innovator has to work hand-in-hand with TTO to materialize their dream to own a spin-off. The business plan and the impact of technopreneur should consider the multiplier impact on socioeconomic drivers of quintuple helix of society, academia, government, industry,and environment.