Photo: Telkom University/telkomuniversity.ac.id. A higher education institution must serve as a research centre and an innovation centre in addition to being a teaching centre. Every higher education institution must be able to perform at least those three duties. And Telkom University is no exception. Therefore, managers of higher education institutions must be able to transform the institutions under their control into teaching institutions as well as research institutions and innovation institutions. So far, Telkom University appears to have done a good job of performing those three duties as one of Indonesia's top universities. We have seen that Telkom University is now a hub for numerous types of research and innovation in addition to being a teaching institution. Higher education institutions need to consistently develop two key areas: research and innovation. Thus, colleges and universities must have research centres in order for research and innovation activities to funct...