BANDUNG, unpas.ac.id – To grow and develop entrepreneurial potential within campus, Universitas Pasundan, through PIC of Entrepreneurship and Business Incubator Unit are now gathering students who have potential in the concerned field.
The PIC of Entrepreneurship, as part of integrated divisions of the 9 programs of MBKM, is entrusted to the teacher of Business Administration Study Program, Dr. Ida Hindarsyah, M.Si. Since receiving the Decree last year, she is responsible for coordinating the students to join in the entrepreneurial program from Kemendikbudristek, namely the Indonesian Student’s Program for Entrepreneurship (Kegiatan Berwirausaha Mahasiswa Indonesia, KBMI) and Indonesian Student’s Startup Acceleration (Akselerasi Startup Mahasiswa Indonesia, ASMI).
KBMI is openly available for all students who wants to create a business idea which can be promoted. Meanwhile, ASMI required the student to have the business transaction approximately six months before the program is carried out.
“Although the second batch will be opened next February 2022, its preparation has been carrying out since now and then. We start to identify students going to establish the business (entrepreneurship), so when it is officially opened, there are lists of students to be submitted to the program itself,” she said on Tuesday, 3 August 2021.
She admitted that to grow students’ independence is not as easy as it looks. Therefore, apart from having involved in Business Incubator, she has plans to collaborate with Entrepreneurship teacher as one of the efforts of gathering potential student, or those who are running a business.
She thinks that the involvement of Unpas student in entrepreneurship field has not been quite massive yet. Among the average of 15 thousand active students, there should be 3% of them establishing a business. However, in the first generation, there has not much attending the program.
“The lack of targeted number of participants in Kemendikbudristek could also be probably because the lack of student’s misunderstanding since the program is still new. I believe students in all faculties have their own potential,” she continued.
Today, she focuses on seeking for students’ entrepreneurial potential in each faculty to make a collaboration. Students will further be trained to be able to arrange a business plan which is not proper in the paper only, but also able to be implemented continuously.
She also added that if the approach to the faculty and study program is carried on intensely, students’ entrepreneurial potential will grow. When she was Department Head of Business Administration, she succeeded to establish Geniuspreneur Community along with the students. Their interest was quite big.
“Geniuspreneur was established in the department [Business Administration] only, and it can gather [the students] quite much that time. Even more, there were some of them whose business turnover has reached billions. If the socialization is intense, there will certainly many potentials which ca be improved,” she explained.
From the view of Business Incubator, there are three underlined points, namely pre-incubation, incubation, and post-incubation. The listed students will also be sorted and selected in each step.
“I, by chance, have partner in a business acceleration company which we will have collaboration with. I am also involved in an association of business incubator in West Java. I actively direct and carry out the training of business incubator for students in the universities. We will try to activate it in Unpas to make student involved in every progress,” she concluded. (Reta)*
