explaining technopreneurship: a combination of theory & personal experience

Explaining Technopreneurship:

A Combination of Theory &

Personal Experience

BY: VIDIYAMA SONEKH

BANDUNG, DEC 1, 2012

Prepared By Vidiyama Sonekh [email protected] for ITHB, Bandung, Dec 1, 2012

VIDIYAMA SONEKH

Born in Jakarta 30 November 1979

12 years of experience in technology industry• Founder of Internet Survey Indonesia

• Founder of Farabi Centaur Chiron (digital

media production & engagement)

• Founder of 7 Warna Sinema

Currently as Business Director at XM Gravity

(Digital media consulting company)

Twitter @vidiyama

[email protected]

Prepared By Vidiyama Sonekh E: [email protected] T: @vidiyama for ITHB, Bandung, Dec 1, 2012

techno- + entrepreneur

First known use 1987

Definition:

an entrepreneur involved with high technologySource: http://www.merriam-webster.com

Technopreneur Advance Definition:

“Type of entrepreneur that has a strategic role in

accelerating national development is the one with

INNOVATION as its base, or TECHNOPRENEUR”(http://www.bppt.go.id/index.php/component/content/article/63-kebijakan-

teknologi/1018-kehadiran-technopreneur-percepat-pertumbuhan-ekonomi-negara)

Technopreneurship is not a product but a process of synthesis in engineering the

future of a person, an organization, a nation and the world

TECHNOPRENEUR


GLOBAL TECHNOPRENEUR


LOCAL TECHNOPRENEUR

You?

Indonesia social networking


THE ORIGIN

COURAGE

CERTAIN MINDSET

INTERDISCIPLINARY SKILLS

ABILITY TO THINK DIFFERENT

HARD WORK

• Delivering an innovative hi-tech product

• Makes use of hi-tech in an innovative way to deliver its product to the consumer

• Or both combination

CREATIVITY


3 QUESTIONS FOR A TECHNOPRENEUR

What problems in society/consumers do you want to solve with technology?

• Thomas A. Edison wants to bring light to the people with technology (light bulb) and not candles

What makes your invention/product different from what is already in the market?

• Steve Jobs didn’t create computer, but he brought computers from government and corporation use to the mass people

What is the improvement from the existing technology?

• Can your invention/product be better, faster, more efficient and effective than the previous ones?


THE SPECTRUMS

• Do you agree that Technopreneurship consists of these three spectrums?

• Technology as both the tool and final output

• Creativity in terms of innovation

• Commercial in terms of can you make a profit from your product

Technology-based Industry

Commercial Business

Creative Industry


MY JOURNEY

Farabi Centaur Chiron

Internet Survey Indonesia


MY NOT SO SUCESSFUL STORY

iCast is a proximity marketing platform developed by FCC which allows two-way transfer of data to/from mobile devices based on proximity of such mobile devices to a iCast server

It leverages the growing number of BlueToothenabled devices including mobile phones, PDAs and portable computers

iCast delivers high-bandwidth delivery of digital data, without network charges, on an opt-in basis


I FOUND THIS TO BE TRUE

“I have not failed. I’ve just found

10,000 ways that won’t work”

(Thomas Alva Edison)

The road to innovation in technology

is paved with unrelenting mentality

How about you?


ELEMENTS SUPPORTING THE BIRTH OF

TECHNOPRENEUR

Technopreneur

Business Incubation (Inc. financing, marketing, etc.)

Education Institution

(technology laboratory)

R&D in Private Sectors

Technology Infrastructure & Suprastructure

Clear Government Regulation on

Technology (patent, scope of use, etc.)


WHERE DO I START

Creativity is breaking the conventional mental blocks and playing with

imagination and possibilities, leading to new and meaningful connections

and outcomes while interacting with ideas, people and the environment.

CREATIVITY


HOW

Review of and current issues

Ideas and Innovation

Preparing a winning business proposals

and presentation

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Are You Ready to become a

Technopeneur?

Thank You
