The issue of gender equality has still been a global topic. This implies that male and female should be treated equally. In Indonesia, the realization of gender equality should be pursued by providing wider opportunities for females in various aspects such as in social life with their role in the economy. Nowadays, females can freely open businesses or become entrepreneurs, and even they have opportunity to lead an organization. However, in reality, the number of business females is still very limitedcompared to the males. For that reason, it requires empowering the female for increasing the number of female entrepreneurs in Indonesia. This study provides a typical character of leadership and entrepreneurship of females in running the business. It explores the role of leadership and entrepreneurship of female in business in Surabaya. This is qualitative methods of case study, with in-depth interviews on the informants of female entrepreneurs who have business in Surabaya. It shows that females leadership in business applies transformational and transactional leadership style. Yet, they tend to act as a controller while the role as an enabler is done only for certain conditions. From the entrepreneurship point of view, it shows an important role of entrepreneurship that is to build a culture of innovation and create competitiveness.

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Entrepreneurship has a relationship with innovation, because an entrepreneur should have the future vision, a innovative thinking and could know the opportunities and create the values. One of the efforts to develop entrepreneurship more intensively is through a formal education. The study will discuss the process of innovation’s adoption in learning process of entrepreneurship in the formal education. The process of innovation’s adoption is a process to create an individual or organization change to improve the performance effectiveness. The study used case study on the students of the program of international studies management in Ciputra University. The technique of data collection used an observation, interview, and documentation. Testing of data credibility used sources and technique triangulation. Data analysis is interactively performed continually until completed so the data saturated. The research result shown that in the process of an innovation adoption a student started to launch many ideas openly, filtering the ideas based on a challenge and bottleneck probably faced, receiving an input of the other parties to complete their innovation and want to continually innovation. The research shown that the internal factor as an awareness to take a risk and external factor as a market network will influence their decisions. The factors of facilitator and target also influence or contribute in direction of the innovation adoption of students.