Bandung High Technology Valley

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Bandung High Technology Valley

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Kulawarga Perguruan Tinggi Bandung

Keluarga Mahasiswa Bandung

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(October 28, 2009) Mark Pincus, Serial entrepreneur and founder of Zynga, and Bing Gordon, longtime Electronic Arts creative mind and investor on behalf of KPCB, discuss successful CEOs, building sustainable companies, mentorship, and the consumer pay-driven Web 3.0.

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BHTV Corridor

Malaysia is famous for its Multimedia Superhighway Corridor (MSC). BHTV actually has also a corridor. Unlike the Malaysian’s MSC, our corridor already exists and grows naturally. Figure 3 shows the “BHTV corridor”. The scenario is as follows. Jakarta is and will be the center for business. The “Koridor JKT-CLG” (Jakarta – Cilegon) and “Koridor JKT-CKP” (Jakarta – Cikampek) are places where manufacturing plants are located. This is due to the fact that manufacturing sites require fast access to international ports (for transferring components and finished goods). Those two “koridor” already function as manufacturing sites. There is Krakatau Stell, a company that produces steel in Cilegon. In Cikampek, you will find companies such as Sony, Epson, Pirelli, and many more. Bandung is plotted to be the anchor where research and development (R&D) are carried out. Close to Padalarang actually there is a new city which is designed as an education-oriented city.

An investor would come to Indonesia through Jakarta. He can conduct his business matters in Jakarta. If he wants to see the manufacturing site, he could do so. If he wants to meet and have a discussion with the R&D persons/groups, he would go to Bandung. Everything, from Jakarta to Bandung should be within 3 hours range. That’s why Silicon Valley is so successful. Everything is within 2 or 3 hours away.

Success Criteria

With all of those advantages, why Bandung is still not known as a technology region? Jennifer Hillner, in her Wired magazine article, lists four success criteria:

1. The ability of area universities and research facilities to train skilled workers or develop new technologies

2. The presence of established companies and multinationals to provide expertise and

economic stability

3.The population's entrepreneurial drive to start new ventures

4.The availability of venture capital to ensure that the ideas make it to market

Bandung excells in the first point only. It is unfortunate that there are no multinational companies in Bandung. Thus, if Bandung wants to enter the game, she has to invite

multinational companies to have an office in Bandung. They could start by having a five- person research laboratory. Entrepreneurship was rare before the dotcom fever. Perhaps the dotcom fever is good for something after all. As for venture capital, there are institutionalized VCs. Unfortunately, they act as if they are banks. It is interesting that the list does not mention government explicitly.