Budi  Rahardjo  br@paume.itb.ac.id  serial  technopreneurs  

Presented  at  ICE-­‐ID,  Bali,  23-­‐24  October  2013  

Electronics  Rockstars  

is  Electronics  a  dying  field?  

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The  need  for    new  blood  

in  reality,  not  easy!  

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how  to  find,  recruit,  train,  and  retain  them?  

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Find  must  pro-­‐acLve  

many  universiLes  wait  and  see,  good  students  will  come  (by  themselves)  

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Recruit  need  success  &  fun  stories,  toys  why  should  I  go  into  electronics,  instead  of  becoming  

doctors,  lawyers,  …  

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Train  good  place  (universit  is  not  enough),  need  context,  awareness  &  skill,  good  trainers,  story  

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Retain  incenLves?  (nice)  environment,  rockstars  live  around  rockstars  

that’s  why  we  have  hollywood  

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Next?  plan,  execute,  …  and  hope  we’ll  get  lucky  

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