CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FACING ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS IN ASIA PACIFIC

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CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FACING ACADEMIC
INSTITUTIONS IN ASIA PACIFIC

• B. Rahardjo I. Achmad
• Institut Teknologi Bandung
• August 2000

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OUTLINE

• Background
• Challenges in IT
• Role of academic institutions
• Initiatives in Indonesia

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BACKGROUND

• Communications and Information Technology provide
  opportunities
• New economy is here
• Playing field is level for Asia Pacific
  communities

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CHALLENGES IN COMMUNICATION IT

• Lack of capital
• Inadequate work force
• Lack of brilliant ideas
• Lack of entrepreneurship

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ROLE OF ACADEMIC INSTITUTION

• Capital
• Capital is like oxygen. Important, but not a
  competitive advantage anymore
• Many universities are not poor
• Strategic business units exist in universities

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ROLE OF ACADEMIC INSTITUTION

• Attack on work force problem
• AP regions are famous in producing smart people
• Universities only produce a small portion of work
  force
• Formal degree is still important in AP culture.
  Must remove this barrier

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ROLE OF ACADEMIC INSTITUTION

• Academic institutions as idea labs
• Big companies started from universitiesSun
  Microsystems, Cisco, Silicon Graphics
• Out of the box thinking should be encouraged

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ROLE OF ACADEMIC INSTITUTION

• Entrepreneurship
• Business is frowned upon in many AP universities
• Entrepreneurship should become part of formal
  education

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INITIATIVES IN INDONESIA

• Pool of funds from venture capitals
• Local VCs
• Global VCs
• Millions of dollars have been invested

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INITIATIVES IN INDONESIA

• World (global) quality work force
• Standardize education ABET, QUE, DUE initiatives
• Internet in campus
• Internet in school
• Sekolah 2000 (School 2000) programmehttp//www.
  sekolah2000.or.id

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INITIATIVES IN INDONESIA

• Still on education industrial link
• ITB Co-running a graduate study programme (MSc.
  in IT) with an industry in Cikarang. Students
  will be given an opportunity to create companies.
  A stab at entrepreneurship

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INITIATIVES IN INDONESIA

• Awareness and education in Intellectual Property
  Rights (IPR)
• IPR office on campus in ITB
• Grants for patent
• Cyberlaw initiatives at universities (UI UNPAD)

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INITIATIVES IN INDONESIA

• Bandung High Tech Valley (BHTV) initiatives
• Conducive ecosystem
• Bandung is a special city

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SCI-TECH Community in Bandung
PINDAD
POS
TELKOM
ITB
Universities UNPAD ParahiyanganIKIP Etc.
SoftwareHardwareHouse
BHTV
ResearchCenters PPAURISTILIPI MIDC B4T Etc.
Technology Infrastructure
IndustriesLEN INTI CMI TELNIC Etc.
Airport
IPTN
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INITIATIVES IN INDONESIA

• Industrial links
• Applied research, more product oriented RUSNAS
  (strategic national research)
• Output products (Wireless Internet System, Radio
  Sonde, Free Office Components)
• Techno-clusters are developed

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CONCLUDING REMARKS

• Challenges are opportunities
• AP region is very special
• Collaboration among AP communities are needed
  more than ever