Competitiveness is the ability to produce goods and services that meet international standard, while at the same time maintaining high and sustainable income levels, or demonstrating the ability of regions to generate high levels of income and employment opportunities which open to external or global competition.
Competitiveness can also be interpreted as the capacity of the nation to face the challenges of international competition.
Some indicators in increasing competitiveness are (1) macroeconomics, (2)
infrastructure quality and (3) health and basic education. While the components in increasing competitiveness are research and innovation.
Innovation is an essential requirement for Researchers and Lecturers who have the obligation to carry out teaching, research and community service. Indonesia’s competitiveness level dropped from 37 to 41 in September 2016, one month after the research funding was drastically cut by the State.
This needs to be our common concern. One effort to overcome this is the sharing of research results regionally and internationally conducted in an international conference.
Green development is a development concept that always considers the social and environmental impacts of development. This is defined as three things: environmental responsiveness, resource efficiency, and society and sensitivity to culture.
The issue of limited natural resources is one of the most important environmental issues at this time, in connection with this as a developing country, Indonesia needs to accelerate the development of industry and technology through the use of clean and efficient technology and the use of environmentally friendly natural resources to achieve sustainable development goals.
Sustainable development (Sustainable Development Goals or SDG’s) namely
development that is environmentally oriented to be a reference for every country in the world, so that the United Nations (UN) has ratified it as a goal of world community development in September 2015.
There are 17 goals SDG’s consisting of: the absence of poverty; free from hunger; healthy and peaceful; quality education; gender equality; clean water and sanitation; clean and affordable energy; decent work and economic growth; industry, innovation and infrastructure; reduced inequality; cities and sustainable communities; responsible consumption and production; climate change is addressed; marine resources maintained; terrestrial ecosystems maintained; peace, justice and effective institutions; and global cooperation.
Jambi University as one of the stakeholders in development in Indonesia,
especially in Jambi Province, was called to be actively involved in conducting studies on SDG’s and also conducted socialization and published the results of these studies.
To that end, in 2016 the University of Jambi through the Institute for Research and Community Service (LPPM) took the initiative to hold a conference on sustainable development (Green Development) which was named:: The International Conference Introduction 3 on Green Development (GDIC 2016, 2018, 2020). With the holding of an international
conference attended by local and international participants, it is hoped that it can improve the competitiveness of the Nation through human resource development, infrastructure development using the principle of “green development”. So that the Indonesian Nation is expected to be able to compete and be able to use natural resources wisely.
