UNAIR NEWS –Business incubator was first established at UNAIR in 2017.听One of the goals of establishing the incubator is to help developstart-upsat.听Currently, the business incubator has grown and changed its name to Business and Technology Incubator, under UNAIR’s Start-up Business and Innovation Development Agency (BPBRIN).
Dr.听Achsania Hendratmi, SE or Achsania explained that the technology business incubation is an incubation process to support product development and/or business development of technology-based start-up companies so they can becomeprofitablecompaniesand have proper organizational and financial management.听The business and technology incubation also strives to turn thefosteredstart-upsinto asustainablecompany, so it positively impacts society.
“There are three main service pillars for business and technology incubator, pre-incubation, incubation, and post-incubation,” she continued.
Meanwhile, UNAIR’s Business and Technology Incubator has seven services that can be accessed or obtained byfosteredstart–ups: space and share, services, support, development skills, seed capital, synergy,andsocial networking.
Space and shareare office facilities or workspaces provided, such as discussion rooms, production rooms, laboratories, showrooms, and internet connections.听Meanwhile,servicesare the provided technical guidance such as management guidance, marketing, financial, legal, business information and technology aspects.
”Support isintended to provide access to research, professional networks, technology development, and relations with investors,” said the head of UNAIR’s Business and Technology Incubator.
Skill development services arefrom training in business planning, management and leadership provided.听Seed Capitalis the assistance to access funding sources and financial institutions.
Thesynergyis a collaboration of tenantstart-ups, universities, institutes, research, private businesses, professionals and the public.听Social Networkingis a facility to build networks through seminars, exhibitions and agency visits.
Support for Alumni
Apart from the establishment of a business incubator, UNAIR also has a program that supportsstart-ups ofstudents and alumni in financial aspects.听Start-upsthat are joined astenantsin Business and Technology Incubator can get funding through two schemes, through internal funding from RKAT, and external funding from various institutions, ministries, and both government and private institutions.
“Even so, the function of the incubator is more to assist and incubate thestart-upthat has been running for at least 6 months, not at the level of ideas,” explained Achsania.
In February 2021, BPBRIN has alsorenamed the Business and Technology Incubator to Satria Airlangga Business Incubator (SAIN).听SAIN will recruit start-up tenants twice annually.听The requirement is that thestart-upmust have been running for at least six months, bothfor technology-based and non-technology-basedstart-ups.
“Start-uppractitioners can be students, alumni, and inventor lecturers,” said Achsania.
In the future, continued Achsania, the university incubator is expected to become an incubation vessel, the results of UNAIR inventions which must then be manufactured or commercialized into mass products.听The process of an invention product, in order to become commercial, required to have passed totechnology readiness level7, with established institutional structure in the form of a company oraninitialstart-upthen later doingscaling up.
In order to accommodate students who are still at the idea stage, there is a DPPKA as asupplyor source ofstart-uptalents.听DPPKA also has a role to build entrepreneurial initiation through student entrepreneurship programs and assistance for students’ initial businesses.
“UNAIR also gives award thebeststart-up, which was given last year at UNAIR’s anniversary,” she continued.
Furthermore, other assistance provided by UNAIR was the inauguration of twoco-working spaces, incubatorandCoffee Toffeeco-working spaces, as a means of building an ecosystem ofUNAIR start-ups.听(*)
Author: Galuh Mega Kurnia
Editor : Binti Q. Masruroh
