Improving Entrepreneur Competency for the Entrepreneur Community Using The Triple Helix Approach

Abstract

Triple Helix is an approach to developing a knowledge-based economy that encourages collaboration among three actors: academics or universities, government, and business or companies. The purpose of this research is to describe the pattern of using the Triple Helix approach to increase the entrepreneurial competence of the Laweyan batik entrepreneur community, as well as to describe the Triple Helix approach used by Academics, Government, and Entrepreneurs to improve entrepreneurial competence for the Laweyan batik entrepreneur community. A qualitative approach with an ethnographic design was used in this study. As the Triple Helix actor, the informants in this study included the head of the Laweyan batik entrepreneur community, academics, businessmen, and the government. Interviews, observation, and documentation were used as data collection techniques. The validity of the data in this study was determined through source and technique triangulation. The interactive analysis technique of the Miles, Huberman, and Saldana models was used in this study to analyze data. The findings revealed that: 1) academics, entrepreneurs, and the government can be connected and collaborated based on their respective capacities and capabilities, so that it can become a cycle that fills each other's roles in innovation and creativity, so that historical and cultural tourism in Kampoeng Batik Laweyan becomes a supporter of the regional economy; and 2) Triple Helix actor synergy in the development of the batik industry to improve entrepreneurship. As a result, Triple Helix actors can collaborate to develop a program for business assistance that lasts at least one month in order to improve the entrepreneurial skills of the Laweyan batik entrepreneur community.