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Founded
  
2008

Product
  
Technology Innovations

Area served
  
Worldwide

Founder
  
Sandiaga Salahudin Uno Arief Surowidjojo

Type
  
Non-Profit Organization

Location
  
Jl Jenggala II No. 9, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta 12110 Indonesia

The INOTEK Foundation, a not-for-profit organization based in Jakarta, Indonesia, was founded in 2008 by two Indonesian people: Sandiaga Salahudin Uno and Arief Surowidjojo. Inotek facilitates the development of innovative technologies through invention-based enterprises and also disseminate them.

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Aims

Accelerate the growth of non-IT-technology-based small and medium enterprises that deliver both technology and business solutions to transform social and environmental problems and create sustainable economic growth in Indonesia. Supported by The Lemelson Foundation, Inotek identifies innovative individuals and companies, provides these entrepreneurs with mentoring services to hone their business strategy, develop management capacity and connect them to potential business partners.

Supported innovators

  • Prof. Ari Purbayanto has developed Suritech, a machine that separates the bones and meat of small by-catch fish, making it profitable for fishermen to sell the by-catch, rather than throw dead or dying fish back into the sea.
  • Agus Cahyadi has developed an octopus fishing gear.
  • Prof. M. Nurhuda has developed the UB Kompor biomass cookstoves and through his company CV Kreasi Daya Mandiri, he has sold more than 12,000 stoves to distributors around the world.
  • Hadi Apriliawan and team has developed SULIS, a new cost-effective method of milk pasteurization that destroys a larger percentage of harmful bacteria, while maintaining higher protein levels than traditional UHT methods.

    • Programs and projects

  • Mentoring formerly named RAMP Indonesia supported by The Lemelson Foundation
  • IDDGIS (Indonesian Demand-Driven Green Innovation Subprogram) supported by World Bank
  • EEP Indonesia (Energy and Environment Partnership with Indonesia) is supported by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and implemented in cooperation with the Directorate General of New, Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesia

    • References

    Inotek foundation Wikipedia
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