Collaboration between university and industry are vital for promoting innovation and commercialization. The University Business Linkage Cell has been established to facilitate the research commercialization by technology transfer activities.
To bridge the gap among businesses, industries, the academic community, faculties, students and to commercialize the research outcomes of university academics.
Facilitating commercialization of research development outcomes of academic, graduate and undergraduate students of Wayamba University of Sri Lanka and identifying potential industries in order to transfer technologies developed as research outcomes of university academics are among the major activities of University Business Linkage Cell. In order to encourage entrepreneurial activities. Intellectual property (IP) policy has been adopted to promote research cooperation between industry and the university. The UBL Cell also aims to facilitate developing entrepreneurial mindset among the university community in order to go beyond the traditional educational paradigm to contribute to the national economy.
