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Indonesia entered the top 60 of WIPO’s Global Innovation Index for the first time in 2024 — ranked 54th among 133 economies, and identified by WIPO as one of the greatest upward movers in Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Oceania over the past five years. (WIPO, 2024 — Global Innovation Index 2024) This is a meaningful milestone. It is also, viewed carefully, a diagnostic: Indonesia is climbing primarily on innovation inputs — infrastructure, policy stability, digital adoption — while the output side, including IP utilisation and technology commercialisation, remains a gap. The countries that lead the GII year after year do not simply produce more IP. They put it to use at a higher rate.

Understanding that distinction matters directly for BINUS lecturers, because it reframes the purpose of Impactful IP. This is not an internal KPI target invented for administrative reasons. It is a local institutional expression of the metric that separates research universities with global standing from those without it.

Singapore, ranked 4th globally in the GII 2024, offers the clearest ASEAN comparison. NUS’s Technology Transfer and Innovation (TTI) office — formerly the Industry Liaison Office — has facilitated more than 760 granted patents and more than 120 technology-based spinoff companies in the past five years alone. (NUS TTI, 2024 — About TTI, nus.edu.sg/tti/about) TTI’s model is not primarily a passive licensing bureau. It is an active commercialisation engine that treats every IP asset as the starting point of a deployment conversation, not the endpoint of a research project. The question the office asks is not “how do we protect this?” but “who needs this, and how do we get it to them?”

The contrast with Indonesia’s IP ecosystem is not a judgment on research quality — it is a structural observation about what happens after registration. In the United States, the AUTM Licensing Activity Survey tracked approximately 2.94 billion USD in licensing revenue generated by university technology transfer in 2018 alone, across institutions that had systematically invested in utilisation infrastructure over decades. (AUTM / Nag et al., 2020 — The Evolution of University Technology Transfer, IP Watchdog) The median royalty rate for university IP licensing runs between 3% and 6% of net sales — a modest per-unit number that becomes significant at scale when the IP is in active use rather than archived.

For Indonesian universities, the trajectory is upward. The GII notes that Indonesia has made notable improvements in key IP indicators including industrial designs, trademarks, and PCT patents. The national policy environment — particularly DIKTISAINTEK BERDAMPAK and the Program Hilirisasi Riset — is actively pushing the output side: grant criteria now require evidence of downstream adoption, not just registration. DJKI itself has been tasked by BAPPENAS with developing a national IP roadmap aligned with the Asta Cita agenda for 2024–2029, explicitly focused on IP activation rather than protection alone. (DJKI, December 2024 — Refleksi 2024)

What this means for a BINUS lecturer is that the window for building an early track record is open right now. The Indonesian university research system is in transition from a volume-of-registration model to a utilisation-and-impact model. Lecturers who have documented Impactful IP claims in 2025 and 2026 are building evidence portfolios that will be read differently by grant reviewers, promotion committees, and external partners in five years than they would be by a reviewer looking only at certificate counts.

The analogy to institutional track records is apt. NUS TTI’s current output reflects decades of systematic investment in what happens after registration. Indonesian research universities are building those systems now. Individual lecturers who treat Impactful IP as a career-level investment — not a checkbox — are contributing to the institutional trajectory at the same time they are advancing their own research profiles.

RTT’s consultation services, the HKI Apps platform, and BINUS’s partner-matching infrastructure through BRIDGE are the institutional tools available to BINUS lecturers who want to position themselves on the right side of that transition. For a full picture of how Impactful IP works and how to submit a claim, visit the Impactful IP page at BINUS Technology Transfer.

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