Bakrie University is developed not to be an ordinary university, which means this university has a characteristic that cannot be seen in other universities in general. This characteristic implied in the vision of Bakrie University, which is a university that producesentrepreneur-technopreneur.For that reason, as a support in achieving this vision, it needs a special unit in the form of a business incubator that is labeled UBpreneur.
Several things became the foundations for the creation of UBpreneur or Bakrie University business incubator, namely:
- Students’ motivation to have high capability and capacity as anentrepreneur.They lean this motivation toward the fact that the University is bringing big name ofAchmad Bakriewho has high integrity in the business world in Indonesia
- Manifest from the vision to be entrepreneurial university with desire to entrepreneur-technopreneur
- The learning process that provides adequate entrepreneurship knowledge, but require mediation to finalize the concept of business plan,mentoring,networking and access to financing
- The result of student potential test in average, not less than 20% of students interested with the entrepreneur way
- Limited survey test within the classroom of entrepreneurship courses class 2006 and 2007, around 20% of students owned and run businesses, although on a limited scale.
- General public’s view about Bakrie University as a university with orientation to produce reliable entrepreneurs. This is in line with the vision of the owner-manager of Bakrie University.
Objectives
- The existence of Bakrie University business incubator is focused as a vehicle to:
- Accelerating growth, strengthening and developing the spirit of entrepreneurship amongst students. Growth is done through the implementation of business plan assistance, strengthening is equipped with tapped-owned facilities and access of UBpreneur, whilst developing is undertaken through the facilitation and strengthening toward the existing business owned by entrepreneurs or shared between entrepreneurs and UBpreneur.
- Being a national referral center (best practice) in the development of business incubator, which is beneficial to the endeavour for creating reliable entrepreneurs by the college and university
- A tangible manifestation of Bakrie University’s vision to contribute in creating entrepreneurs from educated societies who is highly needed nowadays in order to drive the national economy.
Some services provided are as follows:
- Business and management consulting
- Applied business consultancy
- Access to capital, market, etc.
- Entrepreneurship
- Information technology
For more information please contact:
UBpreneur
Inkubator Bisnis Universitas Bakrie
Kampus Kuningan, Kawasan Epicentrum
Jl. HR Rasuna Said, Kav. C-22 Kuningan - Jakarta 12920
Telp. +62 21 526 1448, 526 3182 | Fax. +62 21 526 3191, 527 6543
Website: www.ubpreneur.com
E-mail: ub-preneur@bakrie.ac.id