Delegation from Indonesia Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education visits NCKU to boost academic collaboration
Tainan, Taiwan, June 25, 2016
A delegation of 5 official representatives headed by Prof. Intan Ahmad, Director General for Academic Learning and Student Affairs, Indonesia Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education, visited National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, June 25, to strengthen the partnership between NCKU and Indonesia academia and to discuss the prospects of future collaboration.
NCKU President Huey-Jen Jenny Su welcomed the delegation and commented positively on the close tie between Indonesian institutes and the university, saying that NCKU delegation just returned from meeting with six mayors from Indonesia to see how city sectors can collaborate and facilitate the city development and the strength of university as well.
“We have probably one of the strongest alumni group in Indonesia among all the Taiwanese universities, for long time now they are closely associated with your current president, with your prime minister offices,” said President Su.
Prof. Chih-Hang Chang, Director General for Technology Transfer & Business Incubation Center (TTBIC) in NCKU, gave a brief update focusing on academia collaboration sectors which is the main interest of the Indonesian delegation.
According to President Su, “From day one, we tried to build the entire ecosystem at one place so it involves internal support from our faculty, for instance, the marketing, business management, and legal service.”
“At the same time we rely extensively on the external support which would be from professional sectors, some of them are formed by our alumni’s company, investors, angel funds and more,” she added.
Dr. Patdono Suwignyo, the Director General for Science Technology Higher Education Institutional Affaire, shared Indonesia’s climate on incubation and technology transfer.
He also requested the possibilities of NCKU sending scholars or experts to Indonesia to help with setting up the science park or Indonesia may send people here for training.
In the meeting, Prof. Ahmad mentioned the triple helix development and asked about the role of government in academic-industry collaboration in Taiwan.
President Su responded, “It would depend on the role of the ministries. For instance, from the ministry of education that most of the efforts and funding will come from the university to facilitate the education, and the ministry of education also sponsors the establishment of incubation module in the university.”
“On the ministry of science and technology, it would depend on the type of the main industry that the government would like to launch and invest so most of the program would be designed to be industry-specific,” she added.
“We actually have some projects very much focus on cities.” said President Su, “We worked extensively with cities, specific with Indonesian mayors to see how the cities can be specifically identified their interests and focuses then we can partner with the university inside the city or in the region of the city that would be another module can be formed,” she added.
President Su also noted, “Some of the incubation center in the early time would be focused on one place but in the past few years we now have them spread into our different colleges including medical center, college of engineering.”
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A delegation of 5 official representatives headed by Prof. Intan Ahmad, Director General for Academic Learning and Student Affairs, Indonesia Ministry of Research, Technology, and Higher Education, visited National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, June 25, to strengthen the partnership between NCKU and Indonesia academia and to discuss the prospects of future collaboration.
NCKU President Huey-Jen Jenny Su welcomed the delegation and commented positively on the close tie between Indonesian institutes and the university, saying that NCKU delegation just returned from meeting with six mayors from Indonesia to see how city sectors can collaborate and facilitate the city development and the strength of university as well.
“We have probably one of the strongest alumni group in Indonesia among all the Taiwanese universities, for long time now they are closely associated with your current president, with your prime minister offices,” said President Su.
Prof. Chih-Hang Chang, Director General for Technology Transfer & Business Incubation Center (TTBIC) in NCKU, gave a brief update focusing on academia collaboration sectors which is the main interest of the Indonesian delegation.
According to President Su, “From day one, we tried to build the entire ecosystem at one place so it involves internal support from our faculty, for instance, the marketing, business management, and legal service.”
“At the same time we rely extensively on the external support which would be from professional sectors, some of them are formed by our alumni’s company, investors, angel funds and more,” she added.
Dr. Patdono Suwignyo, the Director General for Science Technology Higher Education Institutional Affaire, shared Indonesia’s climate on incubation and technology transfer.
He also requested the possibilities of NCKU sending scholars or experts to Indonesia to help with setting up the science park or Indonesia may send people here for training.
In the meeting, Prof. Ahmad mentioned the triple helix development and asked about the role of government in academic-industry collaboration in Taiwan.
President Su responded, “It would depend on the role of the ministries. For instance, from the ministry of education that most of the efforts and funding will come from the university to facilitate the education, and the ministry of education also sponsors the establishment of incubation module in the university.”
“On the ministry of science and technology, it would depend on the type of the main industry that the government would like to launch and invest so most of the program would be designed to be industry-specific,” she added.
“We actually have some projects very much focus on cities.” said President Su, “We worked extensively with cities, specific with Indonesian mayors to see how the cities can be specifically identified their interests and focuses then we can partner with the university inside the city or in the region of the city that would be another module can be formed,” she added.
President Su also noted, “Some of the incubation center in the early time would be focused on one place but in the past few years we now have them spread into our different colleges including medical center, college of engineering.”
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