Business Incubator Supporting Diffusion of Innovation, Entrepreneurship Development And Job Creation

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.200606.041How to use a DOI?

Keywords

communication, SMEs, Business-incubator, entrepreneurship, job-creation

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to describe the role and strength of Business Incubator as a system in which the systematic process of communication of entrepreneuship education for start-up business (Small and Medium Enterprises) is taking place. This research is based on the phenomenon of the existance of the technological knowhow gap between the Innovation Centre as the sourse of innovation and the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) societies as the should be user of innovation in Indonesia. The Indonesian government, since 1990s than has been developing Business Incubator program as an effort to have a bridge between those two poles. The research is taken as a case at Pusat Inkubator Bisnis dan Kewirausahaan, Institut Manajemen Koperasi Indonesia (The Center for Business Incubator and Entrepreneurship, Indonesia Institute of Co-operative Management), one of Indonesian Business Incubators, established in 1995. The Business Incubator program could be seen as an effort to develop SMEs by diffusing innovation resulted from research and development activities at universities and reseach institutions, and by enhancing entrepreneuship among the SMEs at the same time. This research used desciptive method. This research resulted in some findings: (1) business incubator is the effective method for diffusion of innovation process to SMEs, so that it could overcome the gap between the source and the user of innovation, (2) business incubator is the effective method to develop entrepreneurship of the SMEs, (3) business incubator could contribute to job creation. This research has implications for policies of developing the business incubator program in Indonesia as a method for diffusion of innovation, to develop entrepreneurship of the SMEs, as well as job creation.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wawan Lulus Setiawan
AU  - Indra Fahmi
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/06/09
TI  - Business Incubator Supporting Diffusion of Innovation, Entrepreneurship Development And Job Creation
BT  - Proceedings of the 23rd Asian Forum of Business Education(AFBE 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 242
EP  - 247
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aebmr.k.200606.041
DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.200606.041
ID  - Setiawan2020
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