Entrepreneurial Development and its Learning Process: Evidence from Indonesia

Abstract

The paper offers an understanding of the process of entrepreneurial learning that iscritical to the development of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. The paper revealsthe relationship between entrepreneurial learning process and the success of thebusiness among small-scale entrepreneurs for selected learning types. The materialsfor analysis were obtained from a field work conducted in Surakarta, Indonesia byusing a survey method. Four hundred and eighty-five 485 respondents were identifiedbased on stratified random sampling for urban, suburban and rural areas. The totalpopulation identified was 1,040 small entrepreneurs. The reliability of the researchinstrument was 0.9, which is considered high. It was found that the types of learning,i.e., formal, non-formal and informal, had different effects on the learning processof small-scale entrepreneurs. Such findings are important to the development of theentrepreneurial learning and policy to improve the effectiveness of entrepreneurshipdevelopment program.