Inauguration of UNJ Research Business Incubator and Awarding Best Faculty, Study Programs, and Lecturers in Research, Scientific Publication, Intellectual Property Rights, and Community Service

Public Relations UNJ 15/02/2019 Innovation is the process of developing knowledge, skills, and experience in order to create products in the form of goods or services to be more different or new. The importance of innovation itself for the university is for the development of knowledge and can be applied in the environment. Therefore, the Institute for Research and Community Service or the LPPM of UNJ held the Inauguration of UNJ Research Business Incubator and Awarded the Best Faculties, Study Programs and Lecturers in the Field of Research, Scientific Publication, Intellectual Property Rights, and Community Service on Thursday, February 7th, 2019 at Aula Latief Hendraningrat.

The event was attended by the Rector ad interim of UNJ, Prof. Intan Ahmad along with his vices, Chair of the Institute for Research and Community Service, Dr. Ucu Cahyana, M.Sc, Chair of the Institute for Educational Development and Quality Assurance, Dr. Totok Bintoro, M.Pd, and Deans from various faculties at UNJ. At the opening of the activity, the Rector ad interim of UNJ conveyed the importance of innovation in research held at the university. “One of the university’s duties is to have a space that can be used for research,” he concluded. According to him, good research must be written and published to avoid plagiarism. The event began with the awarding of faculties, study programs and lecturers who had the best research in innovation, scientific publications, and national journal management at UNJ. The Highest Appreciation from the LPPM UNJ in 2018 is given to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

There were 21 groups of business incubators exhibited in the attestation of business incubators from the results of research conducted by the UNJ academics, ranging from clothing business, food to drug businesses. The Business Incubator of the UNJ research was formed in the framework of down-streaming the research product of UNJ lecturers and students and developing start-up based on research results in the hope that the results of UNJ research could further improve the quality of research and motivate lecturers and students to develop innovation research products as stated by the Chairperson of the LPPM UNJ, Dr. Ucu Cahyana, M.Sc, “With the existence of business incubators like this, we as universities must look for industry partners and governments that can utilize UNJ’s research products”. The Chairperson of the LPPM UNJ targets to develop 20 new innovations. “We as the members of UNJ must continue to develop innovations to improve the quality of the university,” he continued.

Translated by: O.J