The development of center of entrepreneurship and Business Incubator in Pangalengan, West Java — Indonesia

Indonesia has recognized the importance of entrepreneurship and innovation as engine for growth. Many of the still small numbers of entrepreneurs have been identified as necessity entrepreneurs, who undertake little or no innovation. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) has studied that necessity entrepreneurship contribute marginally to economic development, while opportunity entrepreneurship contribute significantly. Consequently, efforts are needed to create more opportunity entrepreneurship in Indonesia. Supported by government and private companies initiatives entrepreneurship education programs in Indonesia are growing. This research tries to build an effective entrepreneurship education program in Pangalengan district in West Java province in Indonesia. The creation started with a social mapping, which reveals the characteristics and value orientation of Pangalengan people. The results of that social mapping are utilized to design a center of entrepreneurship, which will cover the whole activities of new venture creation such as business ideas generation, training, funding, and incubation of the business. This paper describes the development of the center, which currently in operation and starts training the first batch of potential entrepreneurs.