ITS Campus, ITS News – As a form of government appreciation for the development of innovation in higher education, the Ministry of Research and Technology (Kemenristek) / National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) awarded the 2020 Innovative Higher Education Award to some universities in Indonesia that were considered the best. One of them is the Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) won an award in the Innovation Management category which was officially announced at the BJ Habibie Building Auditorium, Jakarta, Tuesday (10/11).
Through a breakthrough entitled High Impact Research Governance to Achieve Leading Innovation, ITS managed to get into the top three of the three universities that took home the award.
Deputy Director of Innovation and Science Technology Area (DIKST) ITS, Dr. Eng Kriyo Sambodho ST MEng, explained that the measurement of innovation performance is an indicator of innovation that is relevant to ITS conditions because it is through a scientific study process that can be scientifically accounted for. “With an innovation system that is well managed, hope that the productivity of ITS innovations can increase,” said Dhodot, his familiar nickname.
ITS has five main sectors that are discussed in the concept of high impact research as an innovation proposed for innovative higher education assessments. As explained by Dhodot, the five fields consist of policies, institutions, resources, networks, and the last is the result of innovation. Each sector has a background that aims to support the downstream of ITS research nationally as well as international publications.
From the policy sector, ITS aims to cultivate the creation of innovative work, increase the ability of investors, increase innovation support in the ITS budget, orient research on innovative products, and downstream the products internationally. “We made changes to the Organization and Work Procedures (OTK), consortium strategy patterns, assignment, and scientific topic patterns, commercialization through PT ITS Tekno Sains, and the main goal is to produce flagship and finance,” explained the lecturer at the Marine Engineering Department.
While in the institutional sector, continued Dhodot, ITS encourages institutions in the research and innovation center or the ITS Science and Technology Area (KST). Thus, in advancing the KST, ITS optimizes the role of lecturers as researchers and educators. The lecturers also have a role as students through the Student Creativity Program (PKM) and the Higher Education Science and Technology Excellence Center (PUI PT). The innovation policies rolled out are the i-Boat and i-Car as well as a scientific consortium in collaboration with the community, industry, alumni, and users.
In the resource sector, Dhodot explained that ITS encourages PUI-PT and KST ITS with several clusters in the form of maritime, automotive, creative industries, and robotics. “We hold routine activities such as open recruitment, mentoring training, business matching, Incubator Class for Start-Up Innovation (KINSOV) in the form of start-up innovation incubation classes, pitching, and others,” said the 1974-born lecturer.
The fourth sector is networking, namely ITS encouraging, trends from the profile of cooperation with the government, other universities, industrial, to non-governmental organizations (NGOs). This is evidenced by the increase in the cooperation graph every year. In 2017 alone, the ITS cooperation profile reached IDR 142.9 billion and increased to IDR 276.8 billion in 2019.
Finally, in the innovation work, ITS has many sub-categories or groups related to innovative products that have been successfully created. The groups consist of automotive clusters with Gesits products and hybrid cars, as well as creative industrial clusters with the products in the form of exterior and interior car body designs on Light Rail Transit (LRT) and Medium Speed Train, sleeper seat passenger seats, and a digital designs for medical purposes.
It’s not enough to get there, there is also a robotic IC cluster with products in the form of an intelligent car (i-Car) autonomous car, face shield, Raisa robot, sterilization booth, etc. Besides, there is also a maritime cluster with products in the form of a maritime security system called AISITS and a ship loading planning software called iSTOW (Stowage Planning Software). “So there are four clusters in terms of the results of innovation in ITS,” concluded Dhodot.
The existence of this award is expected to be able to give appreciation and appreciation to universities for their achievements in utilizing all the potential they have to support the strengthening of innovation for national independence. Not only that, but the Innovative Higher Education Award is also expected to be able to encourage academicians to be motivated to increase innovation, both as individuals and institutions, to increase national independence. (jev/far/ITS Public Relations)
