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In April 2026, Indonesia’s Directorate of Downstreaming and Partnerships — Direktorat Hilirisasi dan Kemitraan — issued a circular to universities across the country requesting proposal revisions for the Program Hilirisasi Riset, the government’s flagship mechanism for pushing research outputs from protected assets into real-world adoption. The circular is notable not for its administrative detail but for what it reveals: hilirisasi (research downstreaming) has moved from policy aspiration to active, funded, grant-reviewed practice. And the criteria for participation reward exactly what BINUS’s Impactful IP standard has been tracking internally.

For BINUS lecturers, this alignment is not coincidental — it is an argument worth understanding.

Hilirisasi, as defined in Indonesia’s national research policy, refers to the downstream development of research from ideation and publication through to practical implementation, commercialisation, or policy adoption. It is the bridge between IPTEKS (Ilmu Pengetahuan, Teknologi, dan Seni — science, technology, and the arts) and real-world value creation. Since the launch of DIKTISAINTEK BERDAMPAK — the Kemdiktisaintek’s strategic framework explicitly oriented toward impact-driven science — every competitive grant scheme administered through DRTPM and the LPDP-funded Hilirisasi program has been realigned around this principle. The 2026 Panduan Program Hilirisasi Riset Prioritas dan Strategis states it plainly: research results must not stop at publication — they must deliver concrete, value-added solutions for society and industry, in direct support of the Asta Cita national development agenda. (Kemdiktisaintek / LPDP, 2025 — Panduan Program Hilirisasi Riset Prioritas dan Strategis Sinergi TA 2026)

What this means in practice is that grant reviewers for the Hilirisasi Riset schemes are not simply counting publications or certificates. They are evaluating whether the research has moved — and whether the applicant can demonstrate that movement through evidence of external adoption, technology testing, or commercial activity. TKT, or Tingkat Kesiapterapan Teknologi (Indonesia’s Technology Readiness Level framework, equivalent to TRL), is the primary lens through which that movement is assessed. A higher TKT rating signals that the research has progressed from concept toward deployment, and evidence of external implementation is one of the clearest indicators of TKT advancement.

This is precisely what Impactful IP measures. An IP classified as Impactful at BINUS has, by definition, been granted or registered by DJKI and actively implemented by an external party. That implementation record — the partner documentation, the photographs, the written description of how the IP was used — is exactly the kind of evidence a Hilirisasi Riset evaluator looks for when assessing whether a research output has reached an appropriate TKT. A software Copyright adopted by a community organisation demonstrates real-world deployment at TKT 8 or above. An industrial design licensed to a product manufacturer signals commercial-stage readiness. Both strengthen an applicant’s grant narrative considerably.

The practical consequence is significant for any BINUS lecturer who has already made an Impactful IP claim. That lecturer has, in building their evidence package, already assembled the core materials for a competitive Hilirisasi Riset proposal. The partner letter, the implementation photos, the HKI Apps record — these are not just internal administrative documents. They are proof of downstream impact in the language that government grant schemes now require.

Indonesia registered 339,289 IP assets through DJKI in 2024, a record cited by DJKI’s Director General as a milestone for the national innovation ecosystem. (DJKI, December 2024 — Refleksi 2024: Strategi dan Inovasi) But the national policy direction is unambiguous: registration volume is not the end goal. The Asta Cita agenda for 2024–2029 explicitly mandates a roadmap for IP development that extends beyond protection to economic and social activation — and universities are the primary vehicle for that activation.

For a BINUS lecturer, the most actionable step is to treat a documented Impactful IP claim as the foundation of a future Hilirisasi Riset application. RTT’s consultation service can help map your IP’s implementation stage to the TKT framework, identify the appropriate grant scheme — Hilirisasi Riset Prioritas, Strategis, or Sinergi — and advise on how to strengthen your proposal narrative. For lecturers who have IP but no external implementing partner yet, the BRIDGE program and RTT’s partner-matching service are the starting point.

For a complete overview of what Impactful IP is and how BINUS supports lecturers in meeting both inte

rnal KPI targets and national grant criteria, visit the Impactful IP page at BINUS Technology Transfer.

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