Wacana, Jurnal Sosial dan Humaniora
Vol. 24 No. 2 (2021)

Technology Business Incubator Service Challenges During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Traditional Incubator Versus Virtual Incubator

Setiowiji Handoyo (Center for Utilisation and Innovation of Science and Technology, Indonesia Institute of Science, Bogor, Indonesia)
Uus Faizal Firdaussy (Center for Utilisation and Innovation of Science and Technology, Indonesia Institute of Science, Bogor, Indonesia)
Siti Kholiyah (Center for Utilisation and Innovation of Science and Technology, Indonesia Institute of Science, Bogor, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Jun 2021

Abstract

Technology business incubator (TBI) is an institution that has an essential role in supporting the creation and development of entrepreneurship in the early stage of their business life cycle. The Covid-19 pandemic made the incubator service put on hold due to the government's social restriction policy to deal with the Sars-CoV-2 spreading. Virtual incubator services become a new model for delivering incubator services during the Covid -19 pandemic due to traditional incubator services is not suitable yet impossible to be held. The research aims to analyse an incubator service model in the pandemic, identify the virtual incubator services' weakness during the Covid-19 pandemic, and formulate a policy recommendation to cope with incubator services problems, either traditionally or virtually. The research was conducted from July 2019 to October 2020 by using a qualitative descriptive research method with the TBI PPII LIPI as a case study. Data collection will carry out through observation, interviews, documentation, and discussion record archive. The framework uses best practices in incubator services. The research findings show that IBT services that only use one of the two existing IBT models are not the right choice during the Covid-19 pandemic. Both Incubator models each have limitations. Hence, this research offers a hybrid incubator service model that combines traditional and virtual incubator services.

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wacana

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Humanities Economics, Econometrics & Finance Environmental Science Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice Social Sciences

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This journal has a focus on inter and multidisciplinary studies of social sciences and humanities. The scope is the socio-cultural phenomenon, the history, and transformation of society, changes, and stagnation of socio-political institutions, actor orientation, and behavior, the performance of ...