?Aside from a part of our responsibility to fulfill the requirements issued by Kemenristekdikti regarding research outcomes, this attempt was also done to improve our institutional accreditation. This attempt is in-line with Chapter 10, Article 46, No. 12 of the 2012 Statute Laws of Higher Education which states that research outcomes must be utilized and disseminated through seminars, scientific journals and or patented for industrial and technology uses that might be advantageous for community services. As a university publishes more research outcome, it will eventually promote the accreditation for the department and National Accreditation Board for Higher Education?s (BAN-PT) institution of reference,? Eric stated.

Eric also added that IPR could become an alternative for lecturers? research grants accountability towards Dikti. On several occasions, LPPM UPH has conducted a comparative study to other universities, in order to improve the quality of UPH Lecturers.

?We also think that university?s awareness regarding patents for research outcomes has become rather high and clearly, UPH supports the idea. As for the next step, we are going to conduct a variety of program to introduce our research and other research outcomes. We really do hope that this program can promote interest and enthusiasm for lecturers to conduct a research,? Eric added. (rh)