Inotek Foundation

The INOTEK Foundation, a not-for-profit organization based in Jakarta, Indonesia. It was founded in 2008 by Indonesians Sandiaga Salahudin Uno and Arief Surowidjojo. Inotek facilitates the development and dissemination of innovative technologies through invention-based enterprises.

Aims
Inotek aims to accelerate the growth of non-IT technology-based small and medium enterprises that deliver technology and business solutions, to transform social and environmental problems and create sustainable economic growth in Indonesia. Supported by The Lemelson Foundation, Inotek identifies innovative individuals and companies and provides these entrepreneurs with mentoring services to hone their business strategy, develop management capacity and connect them to potential business partners.

Supported innovators

 * Professor Ari Purbayanto has developed Suritech, a machine that separates the bones and meat of small by-catch fish, making it more profitable for fishermen to sell the by-catch rather than throw dead or dying fish back into the sea.
 * Agus Cahyadi has developed octopus fishing gear.
 * Prof. M. Nurhuda has developed the UB Kompor biomass cookstoves; through his company CV Kreasi Daya Mandiri, he has sold more than 12,000 stoves to distributors worldwide.
 * Hadi Apriliawan and the team has developed SULIS, a new cost-effective method of milk pasteurization that destroys a larger percentage of harmful bacteria while maintaining higher protein levels than traditional UHT methods.

Programs and projects

 * Mentoring formerly named RAMP Indonesia supported by The Lemelson Foundation
 * IDDGIS (Indonesian Demand-Driven Green Innovation Subprogram) supported by World Bank
 * EEP Indonesia (Energy and Environment Partnership with Indonesia) is supported by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and implemented in cooperation with the Directorate General of New, Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources of Indonesia