Abstract
Universities are considered as a source of open innovations by producing new technology. The innovations need to be tested in licensed laboratories in order to create certified products if they are to be commercialized to the market. Many universities have established laboratories that provide testing services to society and act as a revenue-generating source. Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) owns an accredited center laboratory that provides testing services to external parties. In addition, the university owns other laboratories in several faculties to conduct academic activities and research and yet provide testing services, but have not been accredited. Therefore, the laboratories have the potential to be developed as part of the testing service business to support the incubation process of new technology and provide testing services. In this article, we chose UNS, one of the universities in Indonesia, to develop a framework of readiness level measurement instrument, to evaluate the readiness and to suggest improvements for laboratories to achieve accreditation. A framework of laboratory readiness measurement was developed using integration of management approach and laboratory approach. Descriptive statistics were used to create a radar chart to determine the readiness level. Based on findings and evidence analysis, we proposed improvement planning using ISO 17025 and management concept.
Highlights
Universities have played a key role in the technological, economic, and social development of countries by producing innovations and inventions through research done by academics [1,2,3]to perform the role of research and development to create new technology [4,5]
Lots of product innovations in these sectors resulted from universities, for instance, lithium battery [25,26,27], electric vehicle [28,29], and traceability technology [30,31]
An instrument for assessing university laboratory readiness to be developed into testing laboratories was generated
Summary
Universities have played a key role in the technological, economic, and social development of countries by producing innovations and inventions through research done by academics [1,2,3]to perform the role of research and development to create new technology [4,5]. Lots of product innovations in these sectors resulted from universities, for instance, lithium battery [25,26,27], electric vehicle [28,29], and traceability technology [30,31]. Due to the product innovation acceleration, the provision of laboratories has been insufficient. These factors urge universities to establish laboratories [35,36,37] to perform the role of testing services provider [38,39,40,41,42] aside from the original purpose of teaching and research laboratories [43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52]
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