High-Payoff/High-Risk Research Enables Full-Spectrum Dominance in the Battlespace

As the vice president of Advanced Concepts & Technology for Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Bradford Tousley leads an innovative technology incubator inside Raytheon Technologies, which focusses on high-reward/high-risk disruptive technologies for the defense industry. In this interview he discusses the history of Raytheon Technologies and some of the advancements, including quantum computing, ARAKNID, DyNAMO, directed energy weapons, digital engineering, and synthetic biology, which will enable US forces and allies to maintain full-spectrum dominance in the battlespace in the near future. See video at https://youtu.be/8BGtJSISKUs.

Performance indicators for technology business incubators in Indian higher educational institutes

Purpose The paper aims to review existing performance indicators in technology business incubators (TBIs) and propose some new indicators with a focus on incubation activities in higher educational institutes (HEIs) of India. Design/methodology/approach Performance indicators of various types of incubators were identified from research papers followed by interview, consultation and suggestion from experts of the subject. Nature of interrelationship between the identified indicators has been established with the help of Interpretive Structural Modelling methodology and Matrice d’impacts croisés multiplication appliquée á un classment analysis. Findings Number of ideas came for screening and number of ideas converted to start-ups, survival rate of incubatees is the indicators which have the highest driving power followed by time taken in screening an idea and number of failed or rejected ideas returned back into incubation. Few indicators (driving indicators) are affecting performance of other indicators as well. Research limitations/implications Some performance indicators are proposed which can be used for measuring performance of technology incubators in India. The actual implications will be known when these findings are used to assess performance of some technology incubator. This also is the limitation of the study that some cases can be included to validate the findings of this research. Practical implications A total of 15 performance indicators for measuring performance of TBIs in Indian HEIs have been proposed. The proposed indicators will help incubator management to prioritize the efforts and resource allocation. Social implications TBIs are looked upon as mechanism for promoting entrepreneurial culture in Indian HEIs. Their success is well linked to growth of society. This research will help technology incubators to identify the most important factors in incubation process. Performance improvement will directly affect society in whole. Culture of IEE (Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Employment ) can be achieved through technology incubators Originality/value Identification of new indicators for performance measurement of incubators in Indian HEIs is the novelty of this research. This has a lot of value due to multilevel hierarchy model.

Konsep “Entrepreneur’s Dream” pada Desain Interior Inkubator Bisnis dan Teknologi Universitas Kristen Petra

The interior design of the Petra Christian University Business and Technology Incubator aims to provide a forum for the people of East Java, especially start-up companies, students, lecturers and the outside community to start their start-ups and to develop the creative economy in East Java. The current interior of IBT Petra still uses former classrooms. So that it still does not accommodate the activities and needs of its users to work optimally and creatively. In order to solve the problem formulation, the Design Thinking 101 method is used, which consists of 3 main stages, namely Understand (Collecting and Analyzing Data), Explore (Looking for ideas for problem solving) and Materialize (Testing and developing designs). Then an IBT interior design was produced with the concept of Entrepreneur's Dream, which applies the vision, mission and goals of a startup, namely innovative, grow, caring, global into its interior design that can help realize the vision and mission. The resulting scope includes creative co-working space, exhibition space, store, office, event space, makerspace and café.

Research on the Management System of Science and Technology Incubator

Science and technology incubator, as an organization dedicated to serving science and technology enterprises, has many functions, such as cultivating small and medium-sized science and technology enterprises, transforming science and technology into productivity, adjusting regional and national industrial structure, promoting the development of high and new technology industries, and promoting employment. Since the emergence of the first business incubator in the United States in the 1950s, this new form of social and economic organization has been developing rapidly all over the world, and has cultivated a large number of successful enterprises, which initially made great contributions to promoting the development of the world economy. However, with the increasing number of science and technology incubators and the rapid development of science and technology enterprises, various problems in the management system and operation mode of science and technology incubators are gradually exposed, which seriously affects the sustainable development of science and technology incubators in China. In view of this, based on the analysis of the current situation of science and technology incubator management in China, this paper puts forward the construction strategy of standardized management system of science and technology incubator in order to promote the scientific development of science and technology incubator in China.

Technology Incubator and Entrepreneurship Development

The importance of technology in advancing experiential learning and building entrepreneurs that can withstand the challenges and explore the opportunities in the fourth industrial revolution are enormous. The chapter adopted a literature review approach to establish the link between technology incubator and entrepreneurship development. The concepts of technology incubator and entrepreneurship development as well as other related concepts were extensively discussed. It identifies the need for adequate investments toward tech entrepreneurship development and tech-savvy for the future through technology incubation programmes. Such programmes set to aid innovativeness, creating jobs, fast-tracking research to industry linkages, building wealth by fostering the formation of new ventures, among others. The chapter concludes that institutions for entrepreneurship development need to shift their tents to cover major areas of technological revolution, particularly technological incubation to promote entrepreneurship development in Industry 4.0.

Spatial Dynamics of Intercity Technology Transfer Networks in China’s Three Urban Agglomerations: A Patent Transaction Perspective

Technology transfer has become a vital pipeline for acquiring external knowledge. The purpose of this paper is to portray the spatial dynamics of intercity technology transfer networks in China’s three urban agglomerations based on patent right transaction data from 2008 to 2015. The integration of social networks and spatial visualization is used to explore spatial networks and influencing variables of the networks. The results demonstrate that Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen are emerging as hubs in the three urban agglomerations. The spatial distributions of degree and weighted degree are significantly heterogeneous and hierarchical. The larger cities play the role of a knowledge and technology incubator, highly related to their economic scale, research and development (R&D) input, and innovation output. The evolution of intercity technology linkages is driven by the networking mechanisms of preferential attachment, hierarchical and contagious diffusion, path dependence, and path breaking. Moreover, we found that the geographical proximity and technology gaps are determinants of the strength of intercity technology linkages. As a result, it has been discovered that the network in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei agglomeration is organized in a tree network, while the Yangtze River Delta features a polycentric network and the Pearl River Delta has multi-star characteristics.

Kinerja Pendampingan Usaha Rintis Binaan Pada Orangenest Incubiz

ABSTRAK Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengevaluasi kinerja Inkubator Bisnis dan Teknologi dalam pendampingan usaha rintisan binaan. Kinerja Inkubator Bisnis Teknologi Orangenest dalam aspek manajemen masih kurang optimal. Jika dilihat dari proyek yang harus dikerjakan, tenaga pengelola dan pendamping masih kurang kompeten. Dukungan dari Pemerintah berupa sosialisasi Peraturan Presiden RI Nomor 27 Tahun 2013 mengenai peranan inkubator bisnis dalam pendampingan usaha tenant juga masih belum optimal. Penelitian dilakukan di Inkubator Bisnis Orangenest Incubiz di Kota Bandung dan dengan mewawancarai pengelola dan tenant inkubator. Jenis penelitian ini adalah deskriptif kuantitatif. Data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah data primer dan sekunder. Data yang diperoleh dianalisis dengan metode balanced scorecard (BSC). Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan, skor pencapaian kinerja Inkubator Bisnis Teknologi Orangenest Incubiz sebesar 41,328. Kata Kunci: Balanced Scorecard (BSC), Inkubator Bisnis dan Teknologi, Kinerja Inkubator ABSTRACT This study aims to evaluate the performance of Business and Technology Incubators in mentoring pilot businesses. The performance of the Orangenest Technology Business Incubator in management aspects is still not optimal. If seen from the project that needs to be done, the management and escort staff are still less competent. Government support in the form of socialization of the Republic of Indonesia Presidential Regulation Number 27 of 2013 concerning the role of business incubators in assisting tenant businesses is still not optimal. The research was conducted at the Orangenest Incubiz Business Incubator in Bandung City and by interviewing incubator managers and tenants. This type of research is quantitative descriptive. The data used in this study are primary and secondary data. The data obtained were analyzed by the balanced scorecard (BSC) method. The results of this study indicate, the performance achievement score of Orangenest Incubiz Technology Business Incubator was 41,328. Keywords: Balanced Scorecard (BSC), Business and Technology Incubator, Incubator Performance