I-Kuan Tao emphasizes spiritual cultivation through the practice of the Three Treasures, which is believed to influence physical, mental, and spiritual well-being through changes in brain wave activity. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of Tao-receiving of I-Kuan Tao and the practice of the Three Treasures on brain wave patterns. To achieve this, 32 volunteers were recruited, and their brain waves were measured using an electroencephalograph developed by Neurosky Company. Brain wave data were collected under various conditions. Initially, brain waves were measured for 3 minutes in the natural state with 32 samples. After Tao-receiving, brain waves were measured again in the natural state for 3 minutes with 15 samples. Subsequently, brain waves were measured for another 3 minutes during the practice of the Three Treasures, with 32 samples collected. After one month of practicing the Three Treasures, participants were invited back for a second round of testing. In the natural state, brain waves were measured for 3 minutes with 4 samples. Following the Three Treasures practice, brain waves were measured again for 3 minutes with 4 samples. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and paired-sample t-tests. The results showed a very significant difference (p < 0.001) in attention improvement and fatigue reduction. The δ wave showed a very significant difference (p < 0.01), while the relaxation index (Meditation) and pressure index (Pressure) demonstrated a significant difference (p < 0.05). In other words, after participating in the Tao-receiving of I-Kuan Tao, there was an immediate improvement in attention, meditation, δ and θ waves, along with a reduction in fatigue and pressure, contributing positively to the coordination of body and mind. Furthermore, after one month of practicing the Three Treasures, significant changes were observed in brain wave patterns in the natural state, including reduced fatigue and increased intensity of the δ wave. This indicates that sustained practice of the Three Treasures enhances the production of δ waves, facilitating deeper sleep and effectively reducing fatigue.
Private universities face increasing challenges arising from financial constraints, growing competition, and changing societal expectations, requiring them to adopt entrepreneurial transformation strategies to ensure long-term sustainability. While the entrepreneurial university concept has been widely discussed, practical strategic frameworks for guiding transformation in private universities, particularly in developing countries, remain limited. This study aims to develop a strategic decision-making framework for transforming private universities into entrepreneurial universities and to identify the priority factors, actors, objectives, and strategies supporting sustainable institutional development. The study employs the Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process (FAHP), using expert judgments from seven higher education stakeholders representing six private universities and one government institution in Indonesia. The results indicate that leadership and governance are the most influential transformation factors, followed by financial and funding resources, entrepreneurial culture, human resources, and infrastructure and technology. Universities emerge as the primary actors driving transformation, while improving graduate quality is identified as the highest-priority objective. Among the alternative strategies, strengthening human resources ranks first, followed by enhancing collaboration, integrating entrepreneurship into the curriculum, and promoting innovation-based research and commercialization. These findings provide a systematic framework for supporting entrepreneurial transformation in private universities and contribute to the organizational change literature by offering practical guidance for strengthening institutional sustainability, competitiveness, and societal impact through leadership, human resource development, collaboration, and innovation.
Accelerating sustainable innovation is a critical mandate for emerging economies. However, the high failure rate of startups, primarily driven by inefficient founder-investor alignment and information asymmetry, remains a systemic obstacle. In Indonesia, this challenge is further exacerbated by traditional matchmaking processes that rely on social networks, often excluding high-potential Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). This study introduces and validates Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Excellence Economy (AIMEE), a novel hybrid matchmaking framework designed to democratize access to capital and accelerate the twin transition of digitalization and sustainability. Utilizing a pilot dataset of 94 startup-investor pairs from five provinces in Java, we developed a policy-aware algorithm that integrates financial metrics with five entrepreneurial dimensions, including Sovereignty Scores based on alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The framework employs a lightweight neural network optimized with SMOTE (Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique) to address data scarcity and class imbalance. Empirical validation shows that AIMEE achieves an F1-Score of 0.83, Recall of 0.82, and ROC-AUC of 0.89, significantly outperforming traditional Random Forest baselines by 12%. The model effectively identifies patterns of potential collaboration, overcoming the limitations of rigid networking. These findings confirm that AI-driven matchmaking can serve as a robust digital infrastructure to operationalize the Asta Cita vision and SDG 9, contributing to a more inclusive, resilient, and competitive innovation ecosystem in Indonesia.
In the sustainable hospitality sector, the performance of hotel employees is crucial for the organization to achieve its goals. The ability to function at its best leads to fewer mistakes, which in turn makes the company more efficient, effective, and competitive in the industry. This study aims to enhance employee performance, particularly among millennials, by implementing a work-harmonization mediation strategy within the sustainable hotel industry. This study had 205 participants who were staff of nine four-star hotels in Medan City. The research methodology used to analyze the direct and indirect links between emotional burden, job autonomy, and employee performance shows that work-harmonization devotion significantly mediates the impact of emotional burden on employee performance. Moreover, work-harmonization devotion serves as a key mediator in the relationship between work autonomy and employee performance. These findings suggest that millennial employees exhibit a strong commitment to achieving favourable performance outcomes as seen by their superiors. This study enhances the domains of digital and social entrepreneurship within sustainable hospitality by emphasizing the significance of work harmonization as a crucial element in improving employee performance in an increasingly competitive industry. More research is necessary to investigate additional factors, such as transformational leadership, organizational culture, and psychological well-being. These factors can enhance the understanding of how work harmony influences employee performance and broaden research within the hospitality sector across various hotel types and locations.
Higher education institutions are required to equip students with creative, innovative, digital, and entrepreneurial competencies to respond effectively to the challenges of the digital economy. The study is theoretically grounded in the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework, experiential learning theory, and edupreneurship theory to explain the integration of technology, pedagogy, and entrepreneurial value creation in product-oriented learning. This study aims to investigate how Technology-Based Creative Writing learning empowers edupreneurship through the development of short story books as learning products. A qualitative descriptive design was employed at Universitas PGRI Palembang. Data were collected through classroom observations, semi-structured interviews, document analysis of students’ perspectives and experiences, and reflective learning artifacts. The collected data were analyzed through systematic qualitative procedures to ensure rigorous interpretation and credibility of the findings. The findings reveal that integrating digital platforms and collaborative writing tools enhances students’ creativity, engagement, digital literacy, and entrepreneurial awareness. Students transformed creative ideas into value-oriented educational products, particularly short story books, demonstrating originality, innovation, and opportunity recognition. Furthermore, the learning process fostered edupreneurial values, including creativity, collaboration, independence, adaptability, and sustainability. Technology-based creative writing learning is an effective edupreneurial strategy integrating creative pedagogy, digital technology, and entrepreneurship in higher education. The findings contribute to innovative and sustainable learning models that strengthen entrepreneurial readiness, product-based learning, and twenty-first-century competencies while providing practical implications for technology-enhanced entrepreneurial education.
