One of the facilities at the ITMEC Lab is a makerspace, which supports practicum in lectures at SBM ITB, for example the Technology Learning for Entrepreneurship course. A makerspace is a collaborative work space inside a school, library or separate public/private facility for making, learning, exploring and sharing that uses high tech to no tech tools. The benchmark of this MakerSpace is one in ETH Zurich, Switzerland and Keio Edge Lab, Japan.
The Makerspace is to support technopreneurship and ecosystem-based curriculum. It is motivated by the experience in technology-based business course and technology commercialization course. In here, MoT Lab provides equipment and tools for students to experiment with a business purpose in mind. The lab provides a space to collaborate and co-create between SBM-ITB students and engineering/design students and also internal and external innovators. Finally MoT Lab will become a place for ideation, prototyping and showcasing.
In this lab, students are introduced and creative with various IoT sensors and microcontrollers, as well as 3D printers and laser cutters. For the outcome of this practice, it is hoped that students can creatively make various designs and 3D prints so that students not only understand managerial aspects but also understand the technical substance of a technology product.