Service Centres - USM

USAINS Group of Companies
The Malaysian Government’s call to public universities to operate more effectively
and efficiently as corporate entities, saw the incorporation of the USAINS Group of
Companies (USAINS) in 1998 under the Companies Act 1965. As the corporate arm
of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), USAINS is made up of Usains Holding Sdn Bhd and
four subsidiaries - Usains Tech Capital Sdn Bhd, Usains Tech Services Sdn Bhd, Usains
Infotech Sdn Bhd and USM Enterprises Sdn. Bhd.
Objectives
USAINS manages any and all properties, projects or enterprises which have the
potential to benefit USM. Each company in the group operate as a private company,
limited by shares. The holding company is wholly-owned by USM, while the four
subsidiaries in turn are wholly-owned by the holding company.
Kompleks Eureka on USM’s main campus - which has been granted Multimedia Super
Corridor (MSC) incubator status - serves as home to USAINS and its incubatees.
The main objective of the incubation services offered are aimed at spawning related
industries in carrying out more focused research and development activities - such as
applied R&D - by leveraging on the university’s technical resources. What results from
this are more viable prototypes/products which are ready to be commercialised. And
this in turn, serves in boosting USM’s vision to create a research park.
Since its inception, USAINS has been a member of the US-based National Business
Incubator Association.
In managing USM’s pool of experts who are undertaking multi-disciplinary contract
research projects and consultative works (including clinical trails and bio-equivalent
studies), USAINS facilitates and links the university’s wide ranging research and
scientific facilities with international and local commercial, industrial and public-sector
bodies.
Apart from serving as a referral centre for both local and foreign universities in
developing feasible commericalisation models, USAINS continues to market and
promote the intellectual property of USM.