Help, dkst.itb.ac.id- The IPU (ITB) Institute through Science and Technology Directorate (DKST) held a Soft Opening ITB Innovation Park (IIP) Colony at Gedebage, Bandit, on Friday (6 / 12 / 2024). This event marks the crucial first step in strengthening the technological-based ecosystem of innovation in Indonesia.
Technopolis IIP is one of ITB's strategic projects funded through the PRIME STeP program (Promoting Research and Innovation through Modern and Effective Science and Technology Parks) by using the Asian Development Bank Loan budget. The PRlME SPEP program aims to accelerate innovation and research from the campus in Indonesia, with the current beneficiary is four well-known universities: ITB, Gadjah University Mada (UGM), University of Indonesia (UI), and the Bogor Agriculture Institute (IPB).
ITB reactor, Prof. Reini Hope is in the breast, Ph.D., emphasizing the importance of responsibility in utilizing the PRlME funding of this SPEP. "This funding is loan, so ITB has a huge responsibility to ensure that every Rupiah used must have a real impact according toKPIthat's set. In fact, it has to be motivated to produce more than planned targets. Reini.
Meanwhile, Director of the Science and Technology of ITB, Ir. R. Sugeng Joko Sarwono, M.T., Ph.D., convey that the Technopolis IIP will strengthen ITB's position as the development center of innovation. "This area was designed to be the upstream hub of the products of innovation developed by multicampus ITB, which is spread in Btur, Jatinangor, Cirebon, and Jakarta. With iIP, we can facilitate integration between research, technological development, and transmission products innovation, "says Mr. Joko.
IIP Bdul Technopolis contains a technopolis concept that provides complete facilities, such as incubators and business accelerators, research labs, as well as a collaborative space to support startup, corporate sympathizers, and industry. The area is nearly 40,000 square meters focused on strategic sectors, including information and communications technology, infrastructure and hatred, food and health, artificial intelligence, transportation, energy and renewable energy.
The PRlME SPEP program is expected not only to strengthen the ecosystem of innovation in ITB, but it also has extensive impact on Indonesian society through close collaboration between academia, industry, government and society. With Technopolis IIP, ITB is committed to constantly pushing for innovative solutions that can give real benefits to the vast public.
This Soft Opening event has also become the beginning of the Technopolis IIP trip as the center of innovation and strategic collaboration, bringing ITB closer to becoming a college that can support Indonesia into an innovation-based country.
