The Office of Research, Innovation & Commercialization (ORIC) at Foundation University Islamabad has been established under the directives of Higher Education Commission (HEC), Islamabad in 2012.

Since then, ORIC is fully functional and providing end to end services for all matters pertaining to research & development, industry-academia linkages, intellectual property and legal services and business incubation. It also supports the organization of conferences, seminars, workshops and other related events.