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This Center is designed to
provide a physical infrastructure and selected resources
and services to create an environment for ideas to
prosper, for synergies to be exploited, and where
partnerships can be created. The focus is directed to
developing business opportunities, particularly in
association with new and growing small and medium
enterprises.
Emphasis is directed to
activities related to BIOTROP’s scientific program
thrusts, to information technology applications, and also
to its continuing role in Indonesia and S.E. Asia higher
education. Particular emphasis is given to initiatives
oriented to (i) sustainable use of natural resources and
bio-diversity conservation; or (ii) applied education,
training and research.
The Center’s staff
and associates provide technical assistance to enable
innovative ideas, applied research, technology transfer
and diffusion, prototype testing, product development and
the commercialization of products and services. It has a
regional geographical focus, given the S.E. Asian mandate
of BIOTROP as its sponsor. The Center is a legally
constituted foundation (yayasan).
The Center’s
sustainability relies on the success in fostering
collaboration among people and institution engaged in
supporting, promoting and diffusing new technology and
services. Many of these linkages involve both
international as well as national organizations.
Such broad sector
partnerships are aimed at developing relationships that
are (i) reciprocal and interdependent and (ii) involve
individuals, private sector, government, non-governmental
organizations, labor organizations and education and
training institutes i.e:
- local, national,
international industries and business
- educational,
research, and scientific institutions
- persons or
organizations involved in technology transfer
- local and
international investors and bankers
- local and provincial
government representatives.
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Center
Mission
To assist clients apply
specialized technologies and expertise to help resolve
selected problems facing business/industry, universities
and training institutions, or the community-at-large.
To contribute to client
initiatives by promoting partnership which could result
in marketable products, processes, systems or services.
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Center Objectives
- To provide
professional development opportunities for
BIOTROP personnel and consequently assist in
program development.
- To enhance
BIOTROP’s national and regional visibility
and sustainable quality services.
- To motivate staff and
contribute to "institutional renewal"
both within the organization and with its
associates.
- To support mutually
beneficial linkages with relevant organizations,
institutions, government and private sector
partners.
- To enable partnership
or other forms of collaboration that are mutually
beneficial.
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Key Benefits to BIOTROP
- Goodwill and
recognition, staff development, occasional
in-kind contributions, as well as a modest flow
of external revenue.
- Identify suppliers
for subcontracting and purchasers of products and
services, particularly in the research, education
and training areas.
- Develop research and
development activities into commercial
opportunities for new products, technologies and
services.
- Provision of special
support services to tenants or associates in
order to create potential enhancements for staff,
facilities and operations.
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Key Benefits to
BIOTROP’s Community
- Increase in job
creation, job retention and possible incentive
benefits
- Increased opportunity
for linkages among SEAMEO Centers and
participants from SEAMEO countries
- Increased interaction
with Indonesian institutes of higher learning and
research.
- Improvement in the
local economic base by transforming
under-utilized facilities into productive returns
- Creates greater
opportunities for public-private partnerships
- Develops a larger
network of participants in regional (SEAMEO),
national and local affairs
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Expertise Available
through the Center
Service
Role:
- identify potential
opportunities in industry or business that can be
dealt with through the application of technology
available from or via BIOTROP
- assist in identifying
services required to enable clients become better
"businesses" (e.g. accounting, legal,
financial, etc.)
- assist in identifying
new marketable products, processes, systems or
services
- assist in improving
client productivity or competitiveness
- initiate linkages
between enterprises, and between consultant
specialists and government agencies.
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Applied Research Role:
- identify potential
research opportunities and determine appropriate
application for funding
- provide opportunities
for research, innovations, development and
testing of new products and applications;
- assist in provision
of expertise and laboratory services that can
assist specific research projects
- enable consortia
approaches to research initiatives that can
involve BIOTROP personnel in short and long-term
consultancy.
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Technology Diffusion Role:
- help specify the
expertise required to enable distribution of
technological innovations
- assist in provision
of laboratories and equipment to enable new
technology development or applications
- assist in marketing
technology developed, using marketing
techniques/multimedia
- help introduce
required skills within organizations in order to
absorb technology.
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Enabling BIOTROP’s
Education and Training Mandate
- assist in the
provision of education and training (symposia,
seminars, day-release, block release,
demonstration, certification and degree programs,
etc.)
- help prepare training
resources and provision of facilities (video,
printed materials and services, classrooms,
dormitories, etc.).
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Sample activities
- solving business,
management or technical problems
- helping with
provision of support services (computer support
services, management selection, training,
organizational structure, accounting and
auditing, taxation)
- preparing operating
policies, systems/procedures, employee
compensation plans
- preparing of
feasibility or market studies
- assisting in
obtaining financing, including tenant seed
capital funds
- information searches
or state-of-the-art reviews (internet services)
- provision of
technical or expert advice on new or emerging
innovation, prototyping
- planning, design, or
development of a product or service
- provision of support
to organizations wishing to introduce ISO
9000/14000
- testing of material,
product or service
- creation of
intellectual property (patent, industrial design,
etc.).
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Strategies
External
- Networking:
establishing and maintaining broad range of
personal and organizational external
relationships to enable technology brokering ,
client referrals and project development
- Advising: provision
of information and expert advice by BIOTROP staff
on a fee-for-service basis
- Technical Extension
Services: provision of services which would
require human and other resources such as
facilities, equipment, and administrative
services
- Co-operative Applied
Research: the formation of partnerships or joint
ventures for pooling of applied research
capabilities to enable a project to be
accomplished with an external client (partners
would share risks, costs, and benefits)
- Business Incubation:
the provision of comprehensive, contracted
services and/or facilities to assist promising
businesses in their early stages of development.
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Internal
- Networking: the
establishment and maintenance of interpersonal
communications within BIOTROP that will enable
applied research service delivery to external
clients
- Assisting innovations
or sponsoring innovations: nurturing of
initiatives originating at BIOTROP (or through
their affiliations) that are expected to yield
marketable technology, products or services.
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Customized Service Benefits
for Clients
- Participate in an
environment where the participants can share
experiences and conduct business with one
another, thereby reducing the risks.
- Develop increased
awareness of and access to financial,
professional, and technical service assistance.
- Gain access to
facilities and equipment otherwise unavailable or
unaffordable.
- Increase visibility
and presence in the marketplace.
- Pay nominal rents and
share reduced building maintenance
responsibilities.
- Information, advice,
problem-solving or product or service development
assistance.
- Networking,
partnerships, and collaboration for accessing
scarce resources and increasing opportunities in
an increasingly complex marketplace.
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For further
information about Enterprise Development Center, please
contact BIOTROP EDC, Phone (0251) 356 075 ; Fax (0251)
356 076 or e-mail : edc@biotrop.or.id
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