Jakarta, Aug. 10 -- Minister of Higher Education, Science, and Technology Brian Yuliarto has expressed an ambitious vision for laboratories at universities and research institutions to not only produce research but also produce world-class industrial giants.

"Beyond products that certainly have a major impact, we also want to give rise to a list of companies born from laboratories at the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) and from campus laboratories," Yuliarto said at the Indonesia Innovator Award 2026 event here on Monday.

Yuliarto reminded that Indonesian researchers must have the courage to cross the critical downstreaming phase that often causes innovative findings to fail to break into the commercial market.

"Becoming...