Some days ago, I read an article on Businessweek Indonesia magazine 15-21st September 2011 edition about Steve Perlman and his business incubator, Rearden.

Steve, Rearden founder, is developing DIDO (distributed-input-distributed-output). It is explained on the magazine, DIDO a wireless technology that is expected to be the solution for the network traffic and disturbed phone calls.

The article is interesting for me because it is not only the story of Steve and DIDO, but more about Steve Perlman mentality who always gives innovation to all the things he developed. He even criticizes the Silicon Valley mentality that is not that cool as it used to be in which people dare to take risk and focus on innovation.

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Editorial: This article is the continuation theme about Silicon Valley, University in Indonesia and their relations with innovations and entrepreneurship. Sigit Purnomo as a lecturer surely has an interesting view about this theme. This article was written by Sigit Purnomo as a guest post.

This article tried to continue the trilogy of Angelina Veni about Silicon Valley, Rama Mamuaya with Universities in Indonesia Must be a Trigger for Innovation, and Wiku Baskoro withChoosing to Establish – Work in Startup or Work in a Large Company? In those trilogies there are similar topics of discussion, which is how university and industry collaborate in harmony to make a beautiful symphony called “Silicon Valley”. In this article I would like to talk over what have been said by Angelina Veni: “Silicon Valley is more than just a building, company, and universities – there is enthusiasm here, idealism, and culture.” Enthusiasm, idealism, and culture, my opinion is that these three things is very important for University in Indonesia to trigger an innovation.

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