The international conference, which is being organized by Faculty of Social and Political Sciences by initiative from Business Administration Departement has coduct The 1st International Conference on Innovation of SMEs (ICIS) on April 29, 2019. The conference’s theme is : “Innovation of SMEs ini the Context of Indonesia Revolution 4.0”. The main purpose of the conference is to bring a wide spectrum of participant who represent SMEs around developing countries, practitioner of SMEs, academicians to disseminate business opportunities, problems, solutions and research findings on SMEs. Specifically, ICIS intends to discuss and exchange knowledge on innovation in SMEs, best practices on SMEs in facing Revolution 4.4, and recent challenges of and opportunities for improving its knowledge and practices. Innovation in SMes includes action which provide mostly intermediated support to SMEs. These action take the form of tailored services and projects (innovation management capacity building, IPR management, etc…), networking and mobilization actions for innovation service providers and policymakers (i.e. exchange of experience between national innovation agencies); moreover. Horizon 2020 provides direct support to the Enterprise East Asean Network, a key player in improving SMEs acces to funding opportunities, for instance by providing brokerage services to SMEs looking for a coach under the East Asean Innovation Council pilot’s SMEs instrument. Innovation in SMEs funds additional activities intended to support entrepreneurship, internationalization, and improving acces to markets.
