Problems That Are Faced by Students While Doing Their Entrepreneurship Projects: A Survey Conducted in Business Schools in Jabodetabek (Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi)

Abstract

Abstract-Since entrepreneurship has become the biggest issue in many countries, Universities robustly introduce entrepreneurship skill not only for the business school students, but other majors as well. Universities have developed a real-life project of starting-up a business project in a determined period of time. Objective of this project is designed to develop an entrepreneurial mindset. This paper concisely highlights the issues faced by students doing entrepreneurship project in these fields i.e., production, management, finance, marketing, and technology. A quantitative survey method was chosen to explore the issues appropriately in Indonesia to increase the number of entrepreneurs which is currently 1.5% from the total population of Indonesia. This research conducted in Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, Bekasi (Jabodetabek -Indonesia) with a total of 280 respondents as sample. This paper is expected to further give field-tested recommendations for university authorities to give a better guidance of entrepreneurial projects for the students.

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