The Roles of Industrial Engineering Education for Promoting Innovations and Technology Commercialization in the Digital Era

Industrial engineering is concerned with the design, improvement, and installation of integrated systems of people, material, information, equipment, and energy. Industrial engineering science and knowledge play a very important role in the development of the industrial revolution. Manufacturing sector which is the work area for industrial engineering is currently undergoing a fourth revolution. Universities play a key role in this development by producing innovations through researches that were done by academics in this digital era. Technology commercialization is required in order to provide commercial value for the development of technology produced by the university. Technopreneurship as an industrial engineering education course is expected to be the bridging system to promote utilization of technology and transfer innovations product from a university.