Quadro Helix Perspektive: Micro Small Medium Enterprises Development (SMEs) in Boyolali Regency
Endang Wirjatmi Trilestari dan Heny Handayani

STIA LAN Bandung

Abstract

The concept of quadro helix is widely used in the development of innovations for the economic development. Quadro helix elements which include government as innovator and facilitator to facilitate the growth of business opportunity, private sector as businessmen,and society as a source of manpower, service user, innovation developer and the university as the laboratory of innovation have not run well yet. Meanwhile,Micro Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are the business units of creativity and innovation which are created to mobilize the economy. In 2011, the role of people creativity in the creative economy reached 11.51 million people and in 2012 increased to 11.57 million people. This journal is a result of the research conducted at Boyolali in 2017, which has the potential to develop the economy. Boyolali Regency has 26,210 MSMEs and 1,103 MSMEs spread across 19 Districts throughout the Regency under various conditions.This research was conducted descriptively by looking at the role and conditions of various MSMEs. The result of this research shows the lack of role of an educational institution or university in participating in developing SMEs.

Keywords: Quadrohelix, community, government, the private sector, university, SMEs

Topic: Social Sciences