The UWI, Mona places great emphasis on the creation of an enabling environment to support, foster and increase the output of high quality research and innovation.

The Mona Office of Research for Innovation (formerly Office of Sponsored Research) will lead the repositioning of research at The UWI as part of an initiative to transform the institution into a research-led, result driven organization. MORI will guide a research enterprise which drives innovative research aligned to the development of all sectors of the national, regional and global economy. It will do this by providing support to researchers, from the conceptualisation of an idea to the completion of the research project. It will provide support on project proposal development, grant writing, project management and protection of intellectual property. It will also assist researchers with the commercialisation of intellectual property.