Year: 2024 | Faculty: FEB | Output status: Sedang proses penerbitan
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Source metadata: PKM: Empowering Human Capital through Entrepreneurship: Unlocking Potential and Driving Innovation | Tim: Ashwin Sasongko, Muhammad Khafidh, Santi Ganiswari
Entrepreneurship is not only about starting a business. It is also about recognizing potential, solving problems, taking initiative, and creating value for others. UIII’s community engagement project on empowering human capital through entrepreneurship placed innovation within a wider social agenda: helping participants see themselves as capable actors in economic and community development.
The Faculty of Economics and Business team focused on the relationship between human capital and entrepreneurial capacity. Skills, confidence, networks, and creativity all shape whether people can turn ideas into practical initiatives. The activity therefore likely emphasized mindset as much as technical knowledge.
This approach is important because many communities possess talent and local insight but lack structured support to transform them into sustainable ventures. Entrepreneurship training can help participants identify opportunities, understand customers or beneficiaries, manage resources, and test ideas in realistic ways. It can also encourage innovation that responds to community needs rather than simply imitating market trends.
For UIII, the project connects business education with public service. A university’s economic contribution is not only measured by research output, but also by its ability to help people become more confident, productive, and socially responsible.
A feature story can focus on the moment when participants begin to see their ideas as possible. It should include training modules, examples of business ideas, participant profiles, and any follow-up mentoring. The editorial message is that human capital grows when people are given tools, encouragement, and a framework for turning potential into action.
