Jakarta, 18th of April 2012
Assalamualaikum Warrohmatullahi Wabarrakatuh. Good morning and God bless for us all,
His Excellency US Ambassador to Indonesia;
Honorable Mr. Simon G. Bell, Partner, The Apex Consulting
Group;
Honorable Mrs. Natalia Pipia, Senior Program Manager, CRDF
Global;
Honorable Mr. Ovidiu Bujorean, Innovation Program Manager,
GIST Initiative;
Honorable Mr. Kristanto Santosa, Executive Director,
Business Innovation Center;
Honorable Mentors and participants of ”Startup
Enterpreneurship Bootcamp”
Distingueshed guests, Ladies and gentlement,
Talking about entrepreneurship, we cannot disconnect it to
the word of innovation. In this occasion, I would like to convey about the
importance of innovation, because we are now living in the 20th century, which
is remarked by superiority. And the key to achieve it is innovation. Our
President himself has been expressing the importance of innovation at many
occasions: “To become a nation mastering in science and technology, we have to
enable ourselves to place innovation as the artery of our nation, Indonesia. We
must become an Innovation-Nation: a home for creative and innovative mankind.
Distinguished guest, ladies and gentlemen,
In relation to the innovation based on national R&D
utilization, many success stories have shown that technically we have
sufficient capacity to generate innovative products, which benefit our society.
These innovative products which have been developed by some research institutes
in collaboration with local government, both provincial level as well as
regency/city.
On new and renewable technology: the application of hybrid
technology of solar and wind energy is now well utilized by local society to
produce ice cubes, to water the sanded-agriculture, to light the district and
to become tourism icon in Bantul; as well as the utilization of liquid-waste of
tofu-industry using “fixed bed reactor” model to produce biogas for local
community.
On creative economy: by utilizing OSS for animation industry with original content from Indonesia; and also a development of rubber-based souvenir in South Sumatera.
We all realize that it is not easy to push research results
(invention) to be adopted by industry and to benefit our society. Commitments
and supports from all actors of innovation and the society itself are highly
needed. Technology itself will benefit us in order to enhance of our welfare
and to advance our civilization, as long as those elements are built in a
harmonize system among them. This is what we call as Innovation System.
Therefore, the Ministry of Research and Technology has set
the National Innovation System Reinforcement as its prior program. Thus, the
Ministry of Research and Technology develops programs and infrastructures to
enabling communication, interaction and synergy among innovation-actor. Some of
those programs are Puspiptek-Revitalization to serve as S&T Park;
Development of S&T Center of Excellent, Research Consortium, Protection of
Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Intermediary, and Incentive for
National Innovation System as well as PKPP which is directed to support the
implementation of MP3EI and Technopreneurship.
BIC has been actively doing intermediary on technology and
has published 100, 101, 102 and 103 Book of Innovation. Today they are about to
publish the Book of 104 Indonesian Innovation in order to support disseminating
our R&D results. The book series, which include necessary information about
the Indonesian R&D results, can be also utilized as a tool to grow new
technological-based entrepreneurship in Indonesia.
Distinguished guest, ladies and gentlemen,
Entrepreneurship competence of a nation is very much
determining the welfare-level of its people. Experiences from other nations
have shown that well-established entrepreneurship ecosystem is the motor of
their economic development. According to David McClelland, a prosperous nation
shall have 2% at minimum on the entrepreneurial number. The US has in 2007
11,5% entrepreneurs; Singapore has in 2005 7,2% entrepreneurs; and Indonesia
has in 2007 approximately 0,18% entrepreneurs only or about 400.000, which
actually should be 4.4 million entrepreneurs. Since we are a nation with large
population and rich in natural resources, there is no other way for us except
to stimulate our human resource to hold competences to doing business in order
to escalate the prosperity and the independent of our nation, Indonesia.
Distinguished guest, ladies and gentlement,
It is not easy to build a spirit on entrepreneurship because
character building is the output of education and culture, which have been
absorbed from its environment, both from the formal education as well as from
family education and its surroundings.
Thus, the awareness from all parties is required, both from
formal education institution and from the family itself, in order to create and
to provide conducive environment for the growing and for the creation of
entrepreneurship character.
In addition of having entrepreneur character, an
entrepreneur must be able to observe and to answer the challenges faced. It is
because the challenges are getting bigger along with the global economic
development nowadays. Those challenges are coming from internal and external of
an entrepreneur itself.
Distinguished guest, ladies and gentlement,
To build entrepreneurship-competence cannot be done
instantly or by accident. It requires continuous effort and supporting
system/environment for entrepreneurship development. Nevertheless, to build
entrepreneurship as an ecosystem cannot be undertaken by copying other nations
only. But, we have to enable ourselves to design the entrepreneurship ecosystem
in our environment based on the characteristic of our social-culture.
Therefore, the Ministry of Research and Technology
appreciates and highly supports GIST program for developing countries,
particularly for Indonesia, which is initiated by the US President, Barack
Obama. And I also fully support the “Start Up Entrepreneurship Boot Camp” for
the next two days.
During the “Leadership Forum” GIST Boot Camp Program , I
have heard that the key essence of the analyses and the sharing of honorable
Dr. Joseph Hadzima from the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) was about:
how the MIT could become a world model as innovation motor and its contribution
to make the United States being superpower and developed country. It is also
pictured in his presentation that human factor, the soul, and the spirit of
entrepreneurship are key factors behind the success stories of technology based
innovation development.
Distinguished guest, ladies and gentlemen,
Since 2011, the Ministry of Research and Technology has
started an activity to push creativity and innovation for youth, in order to
create newcomer technology-based entrepreneurs. In 2012, Kemenristek holds
Technopreneurship-Competition for Youth. This activity is supposed to grow the
interest of youth of being technopreneur through their creativity and
innovation as well as through utilization of S&T, which has economic value
to be further developed to an innovative product.
This competition is hold national wide to support the
implementation of MP3EI in 6 (six) economic corridors. The selected youth will
participate at boot camp technopreneurship for 14 (fourteen) days long in
Puspiptek – Serpong. Through this boot camp, they may do networking to the
Global Entrepreneurship Program Indonesia (GEPI), do networking to investor and
to get incentive to develop their ideas into innovation product.
Those examples show us that the creativity among our young
generation is quite good and prospective. If this culture can be further
developed and maintained from campuses from now on, I am sure, we can reduce
unemployment, and we can increase job creation for Indonesian society.
Finally, I congratulate you all, who are selected to be the
participants of this Boot Camp. My message for you is, please use this program
as maximum as you can: dig and absorb all the knowledge from our mentors, their
skills, as well as their experiences, which they may share to you in the two
days ahead.
To BIC and Universitas Ciputra Enterpreneurship Center (UCEC) as partner, I give you my appreciation and thank you for your hard works, to make this Boot Camp happen.
And to our distinguished guests from CRDF Global, Guest
Mentors, organizer and all contributor to this Global Innovation through
Science & Technology Indonesia (GIZT), and surely to the US Government as
initiator to this program; I personally and on behalf of the Ministry of
Research and Technology Republic of Indonesia, may I appreciate you all and
thank you very much.
Wassalamu’alaikum Wr.Wb
Menteri Negara Riset dan Teknologi
Gusti Muhammad Hatta
To find out more about the Indonesia Green Innovation Pilot Program visit: www.greeninnovation.or.id or contact The Apex Consulting Group.
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