1. PlaTCOM Ventures Sdn Bhd.
Dr. Ng Sing Kwei
Commercialisation Specialist

2. What is PlaTCOM Ventures?
National innovation commercialisation platform
Serves universities, PRIs, SMEs, large companies, entrepreneurs and grassroots innovators
Core functions cover the entire breadth of the IP commercialisation process from ideation to product/service deployment

3. History
Agensi Inovasi Malaysia (AIM) – Innovation Business Opportunities (IBO)
SME Corporation Malaysia – High Impact Programme 2
(Technology Commercialisation Platform or TCP)
An inspiring collaboration – PlaTCOM Ventures
A wholly-owned subsidiary of AIM formed in collaboration with SME Corporation Malaysia
Launched by the YAB Prime Minister on 23 April 2014

4. The Launch

5. Programmes - IBO National online IP trading platform
Promotes home grown Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) and innovation opportunities to local and international audiences

6. Programmes - HIP2 High Impact Programme 2
End-to-end facilitation from concept to commercialisation
Exclusively for Malaysian SMEs

7. Programmes - HIP2 End to end facilitation Manufacture Idea/Research
Disclosure
and
IP protection
Licensing
and/or
Start-up
Integration
Collaboration
Testing
Validation
Product
Development
Manufacture
Deployment
Funding
Facilities
Incubators
Technical
support
Advisory
Legal
End to end facilitation

8. Services/Initiatives
Technology
Transfer
Commercialisation
Technology
Scouting
InnoZine
Capacity
Building
Angels
Group

9. Technology Transfer Industry: We lack
R&D capabilities…
Filling the gaps
R&D products commercialised…
Businesses expanded...
Promoting University-Industry Cooperation
Inventors: How do we commercialise our research?

10. Sources of IP Universities = 27
Universiti Malaya (UM)
Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM)
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM)
Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM)
Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM)
Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (UPSI)
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)
Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS)
Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT)
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM)
Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP)
Universiti Malaysia Perlis (Unimap)
Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK)
Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin (Unisza)
Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM)
Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM)
Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP)
Kolej Yayasan Sabah
Nottingham University
AIMST University
Sunway University
Monash University
Taylor’s University
Universities = 27
Research Institutes, agencies and governing body = 11
Research Institutes, agencies and governing bodies
Malaysian Agricultural Research & Development Institute (MARDI)
Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)
Institute of Medical Research (IMR)
Standard & Industrial Research Insitute (SIRIM)
Amanah Rakyat Malaysia (MARA)
Cream Construction Research Institute of Malaysia (CREAM)
Forest Research Institute of Malaysia (FRIM)
Malaysian Nuclear Agency (MNA)
National Hydraulic Research Institute of Malaysia (NAHRIM)
MIMOS Berhad
Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM)
Establishment of international pipelines of IPRs for Malaysian SMEs to take up, develop and commercialise for wealth creation
HIP2 TCP – Pipeline of SMEs

11. PlaTCOM Angels Group A club of High Net Worth Individuals (HNWI)
Interested in investment opportunities in the tech space
PlaTCOM collaborated with Cradle and Malaysian Business Angels Network (MBAN)
Quarterly pitching sessions

12. Supporting Services IP Services Legal Services Capacity Building
Patents, Trademarks, Industrial Design, Copyright, Trade Secrets
Legal Services
All kinds of corporate and commercial contracts
Capacity Building
Bespoke training courses in technology transfer and commercialisation

13. Patent Strategy
Identify the relevant IPR, assessing its ownership, status and/or validity and highlighting any gaps in protection – IP Audit
Patent Landscape – shapes your business plan and aligns it with your intellectual property strategy, market players, field of technology.
An end-to-end patent solution.
Prior Art Search
Primary criteria in determining the patentability of a new invention.
Comprehensive report will be produced.
Patent Drafting
Core of any patent application.
We turn inventor's ideas into a document that is designed to the the best patent coverage possible.
-We provide you a well drafted patent specification.
Patent Filing
We assist to file your patent application with the Malaysia Patent Office.
We ensure that novelty and non-obviousness requirements are met.
Office Action
We ensure that you application gets through each office action by providing the best opinions.
Grant
We ensure issuance of patent grant from Patent Office.
We monitor the renewal of each granted patent on yearly basis.

14. IP Services – Value Add IP Services Bespoke and unique service
Aligns IP strategy with commercial strategy
Free promotion of the IP being protected via PlaTCOM’s national online IP trading platform – Innovation Business Opportunities (IBO)
Introduction of potential licensees for the IPRs being promoted

15. The Team Biruntha Mooruthi AVP MBA, Registered Patent Agent
Deenitha Ambigai
Manager
BSc in Computer Engineering
Mohd Lofty Abdul Karim
MSc in Engineering Management
Dr. Ng Sing Kwei
PhD in Electronic Engineering
Faizal Hasan
MBA
Samantha Leong
Legal Officer
Dr. Viraj Perera
Executive Director
PhD in Biotechnology
Matt van Leeuwen
MSc in Science & Business

16. Resources The PlaTCOM Team
Innovation Business Opportunities (IBO) online IP trading and promotion platform
Best practice in technology transfer (SOPs, processes, know-how and networks for due diligence and commercialisation)
IP landscaping tool from Lexis Nexis
Market research database from Frost & Sullivan
Access to external ‘Subject Matter Experts’
Our network of industry experts in companies in Malaysia and overseas
In-house legal advice

17. Why PlaTCOM?
National one-stop IP commercialisation platform to serve SMEs and research organisations in particular – FILLING THE GAPS
Provides end-to-end facilitation of IP commercialisation services – UNMET NEED
An ideal platform to promote Malaysian IP to national and global audiences and to remove market barriers to innovation – PROMOTION OF HOMEGROWN INVENTIONS
Evolved from AIM’s Innovation Business Opportunities (IBO) platform and SME Corp’s HIP2 TCP programme to form a robust IP commercialisation platform – BRANDING AND TRUST
Focuses on generating revenue and attaining self-sustenance to replace public funding with private sector funding – NON-RELIANCE ON PUBLIC FUNDING IN THE LONG RUN

18. PlaTCOM Ventures Sdn. Bhd.
Thank you
PlaTCOM Ventures Sdn. Bhd.
A: 3501, Level 3, Quill Building 3,
Jalan Teknokrat 5,
63000 Cyberjaya,
Selangor, Malaysia T: F: E: W: