Assessing Indonesia’s Innovation System, with Special Reference to Technopark Strategy
In today’s global knowledge economy, technology companies gravitate to locations where educated and skilled workers are in abundant supply. More companies bring more knowledge workers, in a reinforcing cycle. Locales that are late to build expertise risk falling far behind – and Indonesia’s universities are not yet of sufficient stature to draw foreign students, nor do Indonesia’s research parks yet attract foreign firms.
Other top recommendations are: Work toward a shared terminology and action orientation; Agree on Indonesia’s strategic sectors and promising clusters; Review science/tech parks’ location strategies; Reform university technology transfer practices and course offerings; Use procurement as well as outward tech transfer to spur innovation; Integrate the cooperatives with the STPs; and Learn from other countries’ experiences.
