Bandung High Technology Valley

(Perusahaan-perusahaan Teknologi Masa Depan)

Bandung High Technology Valley

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Kulawarga Perguruan Tinggi Bandung

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(Peneliti Muda Bandung)

(October 21, 2009) Intel Corporation legend, former CEO, and Chairman of the Board Craig Barrett discusses his personal career path from a Stanford Associate Professor, to Silicon Valley consultant, to a 35-year career inside one of the globe's most prominent players in technology. His talk concentrates on Moore's Law and the myriad factors in place to ensure its continued progeny.

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Why Bandung?

Of all cities in Indonesia, why Bandung? In short Bandung has two major “gold mines”:

ƒ Science and technology: Companies, universities, government agencies

ƒ Human resources: universities and technical schools

I believe that these two are the main ingredients of knowledge-based economy.

Indonesia was a Dutch colony. During the Dutch occupation, Bandung was designed to host

many government supporting institutions, including research centers. [See Haryoto Kunto’s

book.] That is why many Government agencies (especially those who are related to

technology) have their main office (headquarters) in Bandung. Examples include:

ƒ PT Dirgantara Indonesia (formerly IPTN or Nurtanio). Aircraft industry.

ƒ PT Kereta Api Indonesia. The Indonesian train company

ƒ PT PINDAD. Weapons, ammunitions.

ƒ PT PLN. Indonesian Electricity company.

ƒ PT Pos. The Indonesian Postal.

ƒ PT Telkom. The Indonesian telecommunication company

Bandung is considered as a student-city in Indonesia. Another city that is similar to Bandung

is Jogjakarta. Many students come from various parts of Indonesia just to study in Bandung.

If you ask a bright high school student where he or she would like to study, chances are she or

he will pick Bandung. In other words, even without any publication Bandung already attracts

talented human resources. There are many universities in Bandung, such as:

ƒ Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB)

ƒ Institut Teknologi Nasional (ITENAS)

ƒ Universitas Pajajaran (UNPAD)

ƒ Universitas Parahyangan (UNPAR)

ƒ Universitas Islam Bandung (UNISBA)

ƒ Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI, formerly known as IKIP)

ƒ STT Telkom

ƒ and many more …

Other educational (non-university) entities include:

ƒPoliteknik Ciwaruga

Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan (SMK), Vocational High Schools

Research centers in Bandung include:

Various research centers in universities. For example, I belong to a research center

on microelectronics in ITB. There are other research centers in our university such

as, centers for engineering.

RISTI: PT Telkom’s research center focusing on telecommunication area.

ƒ Other research centers such as MIDC, B4T

Technology companies in Bandung.

Compact Microwave Indonesia (CMI)

PT INTI: telecommunications

PT LEN: Lembaga Elektronika Nasional. National Electronics Agency.

OMEDATA: integrated circuit, components

PT Telnic

And many small hardware and software companies to numerous to mention.

The above lists show that Bandung is surrounded by talented people and technology. You

cannot find a comparable city, technology-wise, in Indonesia.

One of the thing that is still missing in Bandung is the interaction between technical people

(techie) and non-technical (business). It is believed that the interaction or intermingle of these

people that generates entrepreneurs. To quote from Robert Reich's “The Future of Success”:

Entrepreneurial regions of the country – places that spawn a

disproportionately large number of innovative business – typically have pools of

talented geeks and shrinks who constantly intermingle. Boston's high-tech

corridor has benefited from proximity to both the technological insights of MIT

and the marketing insights of Harvard Business School. Harvard's faculty is not

reputed for its technological prowess, nor is MIT's for its marketing acumen, yet

the students who emerge from both institutions and remain in the region

subsequently learn from one another, and this mutual learning has helped fuel

the regional boom.

Silicon Valley has similarly benefited from a concentration of geeks

(many of them graduates of Stanford University, in Palo Alto) and also of

venture capitalists with a keen sense of what it takes to make ideas commercially

successful. The Valley's entrepreneurial roots go back to the late 1930s, when

Fred Terman, an engineering professor at Stanford persuaded two of his

student, William Hewlett and David Packard, to form a company and got

Stanford to transform some of its peach groves into a high-tech industrial park.

But the eventual flowering depended on shrewd venture capitalists and markers

who turned this geek paradise into companies like Sun Microsystems, Cisco,

Silicon Graphics, and Yahoo.