Proceeding of the International Conference on Family Business and Entrepreneurship (ICFBF)
2021: Proceeding of the 4th International Conference on Family Business and Entrepreneurship

EMPOWERING COLLEGE STUDENT ENTREPRENEURSHIP DURING THE PANDEMIC FOR ECONOMICS SUSTAINABILITY BY MAXIMIZING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES

Nuraeningsih Nuraeningsih (Universitas Muria Kudus)
Rusiana Rusiana (Universitas Muria Kudus)
Mamik Indaryani (Universitas Muria Kudus)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 Jan 2021

Abstract

It is the first time ever in the world that the pandemic of Covid-19 highly contributes to the “limp” of almost all sectors including economics and education. College students are one of the “victims” that are now struggling with the challenges of online learning. As learning from home has been stipulated by the Ministry of Education and Culture, they have to welcome digitalization. In this case, they could make use of digitalization to actualize entrepreneurship to survive in this uneasy situation. Many positive things they could try to give small positive contributions to economics sustainability. This article aims at figuring out the student’ motivation in joining entrepreneurship Development Program (PPK) of Teacher Training and Education Faculty of Universitas Muria Kudus, how to empower college students entrepreneurship by maximizing digital technologies during the pandemic, and what business choices that the students choose and why. The participants are 20 college students from respective faculties. Survey, workshops, coaching and monitoring, and interview are used. An online survey was administered to figure out the students’ motivation to join the program. Then a series of online workshops were provided to facilitate the participants to set up new businesses. Coaching and monitoring have been doing since the selection of business type, business set up, production, and marketing by maximizing digital marketing. Interview was conducted to know the students’ reasons in deciding business types. From the whole participants, there are 8 businesses were launched. The few numbers of new entrepreneurs implies that motivationmatters. Keywords: college students, entrepreneurship, economic sustainability, digital technologies.

Copyrights © 2021






Journal Info

Abbrev

ICFBE

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance

Description

International Conference on Family Business & Entrepreneurship (ICFBE) is a scientific international conference driven by the livelong aspiration of President University as a center of excellence, especially in the field of family business and entrepreneurship. The conference is organized by the ...