| dc.description.abstract | Entrepreneurship is one of the ways to decrease the unemployment rate and
promote economic growth. Entrepreneurial character can be taught through
entrepreneurship education, which also help new entrepreneurs to minimize
failure rate when starting a business. Universitas Ciputra Surabaya (UCS) is
considered as the pioneer of entrepreneurial university in Indonesia and has an
entrepreneurship course series called E-Wednesday. This university encourages
students to have entrepreneurial spirits. The purpose of this study is to explore
the role of entrepreneurship course in UCS toward startup business‟ success.
Semi-structured interview, documentation, and secondary data were used to
collect data. Purposive sampling was used to select informants. The result of
this study indicates that E-Wednesday gives positive impact and contributes to
students startup business‟ success. Students can implement the theories learned
when creating real business projects. The entrepreneurship course has important
roles such as to provide mentoring, facility, networking, and motivation for
students. Specifically, UCS‟s E-Wednesday provides students not only business
lecturers, but also real entrepreneurs as facilitators. Exhibition, workshop,
bazaar, and business incubators are the facilities provided by E-Wednesday to
help students develop their businesses. Nonetheless, there are still some
improvements to be made for the betterment of E-Wednesday. | en_US |
