Universities are a source for knowledge, invention and innovation. Research can create useful products and services as well as find solutions for existing problems faced by the society. Therefore, the University of Vavuniya (UoV) motivates faculty members, other employees and students to engage in creation and dissemination of knowledge including inventions, discoveries and tangible properties arising from research conducted as a part of the educational process. These findings can be used in enlarging the economic capacity of the surrounding region and serves to improve the well-being of the nation.

Primary intention of establishing UBL is to support business enterprises in the surrounding region by giving consultancy services, technology transfer, finding solutions for the existing problems through research and innovation using the permitted University resources.

UBL of University of Vavuniya is established in 01^st October 2021 under the directive given by the University Grants Commission’s Commission Circular No. 10/2016, dated 25 July 2016