Marcel Pandin

Marcel Pandin is a PhD student, Technology and Innovation Management Center, Business School, University of Queensland, Australia. His formal education is from ITB (Architecture Engineering) and the University of Cambridge UK (Philosophy). He is a member of Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and graduated from The Institute of Directors UK. He is also a holder of Certified International Banking and Finance from the University of California - Riverside USA. Before being an adviser to the World Bank in corporate governance and directorship until early 2003, he worked as a consultant for Andersen Consulting in London and Fraunhofer Institute - IPK in Berlin. Currently he is a practicing director in hospitality and mining industry and a consultant for Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi and DANIDA-Denmark project for developing DPRD - local parliament capability building.

Building an Indonesia Science and Technology Capability at the early stage

Of the many myriad definitions, globalization can be defined as distributed best practices including in the area science and technology. For that, one of the main tasks of Indonesian policy makers is to build an absorptive capacity (ACAP) to recognize the value of new, external information in the form of best practices, assimilate it and apply it to commercial ends. For years, Indonesia is trapped to develop up to the potential ACAP only without any effective policy implementation that could have transformed and exploited it into a national competitive advantage. If we see ACAP as a dynamic capability, Indonesia needs to develop that capability without necessarily falls into windows of collapse: a period where any technological investment from APBN (state budget) or private sector budgets will not increase the level of the intended national capability and productivity. At this point, Indonesia that is still in its early stage to develop its capability entering promising areas of nanotechnology, biotechnology and information technology could have a technological policy in place that supports (i) the imported technological governance, (ii) local clan and global trusted network and (iii) simplified transactions that are related to the development of science and technology capability. The three concepts are proposed to build Indonesia capability at the early stage and to surf successfully at the technological capability's windows of collapse.