MMUST Innovation Academy Campus

Science Park, Innovation and Incubation Centre

From Research
to Impact

Connecting MMUST research, innovation and invention to industry, enterprise and national development.

Our Purpose

We create the bridge between knowledge and application, helping promising research become useful products, services and enterprises that address real-world challenges.

Background Information

A Centre for
National Development

Science Park, Innovation and Incubation Centre was created to fill a gap in national development. As a University of Science and Technology, MMUST has researchers working on innovations and inventions across science and technology that can help solve many of our national challenges.

Over the years, these innovations and inventions have accumulated as pages in local and international journals, theses in libraries and edifices in laboratories. SPIIC exists to help move this knowledge beyond documentation and into practical use.

MMUST research and innovation work
Coding at night

"Innovation grows when
research meets opportunity
and collaboration creates impact."

Research moving from the laboratory to industry

Our Role

From Laboratory
to Industry

The Centre aims to stimulate rapid global industrialization with leading products and services through sponsored research, industry-academia linkages and a state-of-the-art industrial park.

We work with students and researchers to take research from the laboratory to industry, while bringing product challenges from industry back to the laboratory for practical solutions.

Centre Services

Intellectual Property Support

01

Excellence

University Innovation Review Process, industrial linkages, and incubation and commercialization of innovative projects.

02

Collaboration

Intellectual property consultancy, patent search and claim drafting, patent and utility filing, and trademark search and filing.

03

Impact

Copyright registration, industrial design filing, plant breeders' rights filing, and intellectual property asset audit and valuation.

IP Services Offered

Protecting and
growing ideas

+ Intellectual Property Management
+ African Regional Patent and Trademark Filing
+ International Patent and Trademark Filing
+ Intellectual Property Marketing and Commercialization
+ Consultancy in Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge Protection

The People Behind the Work

Dr. Sum Psusma Tecla

Dr. Sum Psusma Tecla

Director, Science Park, Innovation and Incubation Centre

Leading research, technology transfer, innovation commercialization, and incubation at MMUST.

Dr. Collins Otieno Odoyo

Dr. Collins Otieno Odoyo, PhD, BIS, MBA, TED

Coordinator, MMUST Innovation Academy

Connecting research, entrepreneurship, technology transfer, and industry partnerships to create impact.

Prof. John Kuria Thuo

Prof. John Kuria Thuo

University Leader & Innovation Partner

Providing strategic university leadership that supports research, innovation, and institutional impact.

Students collaborating

Let's Connect

Ready to Collaborate?

Whether you are a student, researcher, entrepreneur, industry partner or investor, the Centre welcomes conversations that move ideas towards practical impact.

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