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A technopreneur's social network is a key factor in the early stages of the entrepreneurial process which includes the stages of searching for ideas, acquiring resources, and gaining legitimacy for the development of his business. It is hoped that a technopreneur's ability to create, manage and maintain social networks can improve the performance of the business he starts. This research aimed to map the social network of technopreneurs in the early stages of their entrepreneurial process and analyze their evolution in the three initial stages. The technopreneur social networks studied were betweenness, centrality, density and diversity. Networks are built using an ego network approach. The egos used were eight new businesses that are members of a business incubator with the criteria of food and non-food agro-industry, business unit age 2 – 5 years, in wall which means having an office in the incubator and out wall which means having an office outside the incubator. The network was analyzed using software. The results of the analysis show that technopreneurs who are on the in wall have a denser network than those on the out wall due to the large number of actors who come from the incubator network. The parameter values of betweenness, centrality, diversity and density change at each stage of the entrepreneurial process. Technopreneurs need diversity and betweenness in the idea search phase to increase the flow of information and ideas. Technopreneurs need centrality and density in the resource acquisition phase to increase resource access. Centrality and density are needed in the legitimacy phase to increase a technopreneur's reputation.

Blue swimming crab is a marine product commodity that has high economic value in Indonesia with a capacity of 47,895 kg/day, so there is a potential for shell waste of 25,187 kg/day distributed along Indonesia’s coastline. This shows that there is a high economic potential related to the increase in added value of crab shell waste. Shell waste is much needed by the fertilizer, chitin/chitosan and animal feed industries, but currently the quality of shell waste is not suitable and causes environmental pollution. This project was aimed at increasing the added value of crab shell waste which currently scattered, has various qualities and capacities, and need multi-stakeholder involvement. The solution developed was a collaborative business model in the form of TPLCT that has economic value, has a quality that is suitable for the shell processing industry, has an easy and efficient process, there is information transparency, and reduces environmental pollution. The prototype validation results show that the solution design provided is accepted by partners (APRI), stakeholders, and can answer existing problems. Based on the results of the study it can also be concluded that TPLCT is feasible from a financial perspective with criteria for NPV > 0 (Rp 201,257,103), IRR > BRI Retail SBDK (8.25%), namely 14.67%, B/C Ratio > 1 (1.3), and payback period < assuming a project age of 20 years (4.93 years). The selling price of dry shells increased for the shell, swimming legs, claws and other parts respectively Rp 1456/pcs, Rp 7573/kg, Rp 3786/kg, and Rp 2446/kg.

The rice supply chain is important to achieve food security. It has various perspectives, challenges or issues that causes a complex problem in supply chain system. The existing problem are related to food availability, inventory level, fragmented distribution, affordability of prices, accessibility, variation of business processes and the environmental impact from production and logistics system. Moreover integration framework in the dimension of sustainability is limited. The objective of this article is to identify current problems to construct the idea of supply chain integration and to build the formulation for improvement the value of rice supply chain. Fifty articles discuss rice supply chain. The remaining discuss on increasing rice productivity, inventory optimization, performance improvement, and traceability. The VOS viewer result showed that sustainability is connected to the supply chain at a distant position which indicates that sustainability has the opportunity to be studied wider range in future research. The gap analysis showed that the production increase is limited to agronomy innovation and didn’t consider sustainable characteristics input. The indirect innovations that use information technology for precision farming also had not been comprehensively collaborated. The production absorption had not been considered in inventory optimization and traceability system had not been developed for supply availability. The improvement activities to fill the gap will transform supply chain performance more efficient, responsive and minimum environmental impacts for the enhancement of the sustainability value of the rice supply chain.

XYZ Fruit Puree is one of complementary food products developed by Company X. A marketing plan to expand the market of the product is considered by developing new product variants, namely XYZ Organic Fruit Puree. The plan is done by providing new price offers and changing the target market from upper Social Economic Status (SES) into middle to upper. This study aimed to evaluate consumer’s acceptance, purchase intention, and preference toward XYZ Fruit Puree and XYZ Organic Fruit Puree product concepts. Non-parametric tests of Wilcoxon signed-rank test and Mann-Whitney test were used for data analysis in this study to compare the preference of total samples and each sample groups differentiated by its social economic status and usership. The result showed that XYZ Organic Fruit Puree concept was more preferred by all types of consumers in aspects of overall liking, uniqueness, intention to buy, and preferential intention. However, if price was taken into consideration, intention to buy for XYZ Fruit Puree concept was significantly greater than the XYZ Organic Fruit Puree concept. The recommendations given were the price of XYZ Organic Fruit Puree can be adjusted to be more acceptable to consumers as well as increasing consumer trust in product safety.

Palm oil as a leading commodity that has a role in national development, continues to experience increased demand, dueto it beneficial in various fields of needs. However, the problems and challenges have prompted the government to improve its competitiveness through in-country palm oil downstream policies. One of the policies is smallholder farmers oil palm’s replanting to support palm oil downstream sector and to increase the smallholder farmers’ social welfare. The crucial thing that is important to note and become the focus of this research is the linkage of the smallholder farmers in support palm oil downstream policies,because the smallholder farmers as the main raw materials supplierto downstream palm oil agroindustry are still obstructed,in relation to geographical conditions, its competitiveness, and its institutions. Therefore, a study was needed to produce an integrated palm oil downstream strategic planning related to the area, competitiveness, and institutional of palm oil smallholder farmers, in determining the potential area model for the development of palm oil downstream in order to have comparative and competitive advantages.The conceptual model of palm oil downstream’spotential areas that uses spatial analysis through geographical information system was used to obtain an overview of the palm oil condition, while competitiveness conceptual modelling uses Diamond Portercompetitiveness index, and the institutional modelling uses Interpretative Structure Modeling (ISM) method to obtain the influential variables as the key elements in the palm oil downstream that affect the smallholder farmers position.

Innovation ecosystem mapping is a method to identify positions and roles of stakeholders. This research was an initial stage of research of building innovation ecosystem in higher education institution. Mapping of stakeholder’s roles was conducted by classifying stakeholder’s role based on framework of process innovation that include idea generation, research and development and commercialisation. This research used case study research design. Bogor Agricultural University (IPB) was choosen as object study because it contributed as the most active innovation producer during 2009-2016 period according to LIPI Indonesia Business Innovation Center. Data collection is done through interview and collecting related document such as Standard Operation Procedure (SOP). After conducting studies, there were 13 activities related to innovation process conducted by stakeholders which determine the development performance of IPB innovation ecosystem. Based on overlapping analysis, there were similarities of roles in innovation management of IPB that werefacilitating research cooperation, incubating, patenting and disseminating innovation. Based on gap analysis, all of commercialisation process stage was not done yet by the stakeholder that include developing and examinating product concept, bussiness analysis, developing product.

Intentional contamination threats to food supply chain has increased. Risk management can be used to handle such threats. Risk management methods such as International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 22000, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) can only be applied for unintentional contamination threats. The objectives of this research was to develop a model of risk management for intentional contamination threat on pasteurized milk supply chain in Indonesia. A case study using Threat Assessment Critical Control Point (TACCP) was conducted in PT XYZ to apply the model. The results showed that the threats can be divided into food fraud risk and food defense risk. The threat to this pasteurized product from this company could be classified as low risk by applying actions, such as prevention, detection, and deterrence.

Rumah Kedelai Grobogan (RKG) focuses on the production and dissemination of local soybean Grobogan varieties. One of its business units, Rumah Tempe, produces hygienic tempe from soybean Grobogan varieties. It has good prospect and is expected to be the driver of the development of RKG. The development of Rumah Tempe is expected to increase the use of the Grobogan varieties and improve RKG performance. This research aims to determine an appropriate strategy for Rumah Tempe. This research focuses on four stages: (1) identifying factors influencing Rumah Tempe’s business development, (2) determining and selecting criteria of business development, (3) determining alternatives for business development, (4) selecting the most preferred strategy for Rumah Tempe’s business development. Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) was conducted to prioritize the preferred strategy. The results show the criteria were weighted as follows: (1) New product development (0.1022), (2) Product quality (0.2747), (3) Continuity product availability (0.2938) and (4) Customer satisfaction (0.3293). Customer satisfaction is the most prioritized criteria in Rumah Tempe’s business development. Alternative strategy isclassified into four types: prospector strategy, defender strategy, analyzer strategy, and reactor strategy. The result of the assessment shows that defender strategy is the most preferred prioritized strategy for Rumah Tempe.