27 February 2012
A total of 29 projects were contested at the exhibition, held on the 16-18 February 2012 at the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) recently that comprised various clusters including Manufactured Article, Plan, Prototype and Model.
One of the gold medalists was Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vijayaletchumy Subramaniam from the Faculty of Modern Languages and Communication with her product - Phonic Tutor Software for Visually Dyslexic Children, the first ever visual software in South East Asia for dyslexic children.
The exhibition this year was different from the previous years as the main goal of the participations was not only to collect high number of medals but also to bring forward research products of researchers in UPM to be commercialised. This is in line with the theme of the exhibition this year – Moving Innovations to Market.
The exhibition also saw enthusiasm from entrepreneurs of UPM’s joint venture companies in promoting and selling off their research products directly to those who came to the exhibition.
Among the products that received encouraging number of sales were UPM B10: Liquid Biofertiliser for everlasting crop production (Biofertiliser), a product of Phyto Gold Sdn. Bhd., Therapeutic Herbal Bath (Putra Aromatic), a product of Etlingera Sdn. Bhd. as well as young trees, fruit juice and fertilisers from the University Agriculture Park (TPU). Besides that, 15 companies were interested to have research collaboration and negotiation with UPM.
As an overall, UPM was awarded second place for the Best Booth Design Bare Scheme Category presented during a dinner ceremony organised by the Malaysian Association Research Scientist (MARS) as the official organiser of MTE 2012.
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