Author(s): Wahidmurni, Muhamad Amin Nur, Abdussakir, Mulyadi, Baharuddin
This study aims to investigate the concept, implementation, and the review of curriculum development of entrepreneurship education on two Indonesian higher educations that have successfully produced startup founder in Indonesia. This paper employs a case study approach of the qualitative method to fit the objective of this study. The data were collected through interview, observation, and documentation. Concerning data analysis, the researchers did data reduction and data presentation and drew a conclusion or verification that is used for inter-case studies comparison. Besides, the researchers also make use of source and method of triangulation to validate the findings in the present paper.
The results show that:
1. The concept of curriculum development of entrepreneurship education is located as a mandatory course, elective course, and extracurricular course.
2. The curriculum development of entrepreneurship education is implemented by hiring business team with highly qualified, realized, and developed business plan under supervision of the mentor during business practice. In addition, the university also facilitates potential funding and events hosting that enable students to meet prominent policymakers such as the government, private, industry, startup community, and consumers.
3. In the process of curriculum development of entrepreneurship education review, the quality assurance institution and the department did meticulous observation on entrepreneurship education course developed through intra-curricular activities. Other business institutions, units, or incubators administering entrepreneurship education program are also involved in supporting such review in the sense that they have fruitful experiences in the investigated case.