The Effect of the Technopark and Business Incubator Program on Students at SMKN 4 Malang Entrepreneurial Interests

Abstract

To prepare quality graduates who are ready to become entrepreneurs, SMKN 4 Malang has provided facilities for their students through technopark and business incubator programs. Technopark is an integrated space that identifies educational institutions, Iduka, and entrepreneurship training to improve business performance for students. The incubator business serves as a place of guidance for students to become new entrepreneurs and coaches those who are running their businesses. The purpose of this study was to determine the contribution of technopark and business incubator programs to students' interest in entrepreneurship at SMKN 4 Malang. This research is an ex-post facto research. Using a quantitative descriptive approach and the population used is students of SMKN 4 Malang. The sampling technique used was a simple random sampling of 110 students. Employing a questionnaire to get data, then using multiple regression to analyze it. The results of the study show that: (1) the contribution of the technopark program to the interest in entrepreneurship has no significant effect; (2) the contribution of the business incubator to the interest in entrepreneurship has a partial effect; and (3) the contribution of the technopark and business incubator programs to the interest in entrepreneurship is simultaneously 39.7% and the remaining 60.3% is influenced by factors other. The conclusion drawn is that SMKN 4 Malang, which is interested in entrepreneurship, is impacted by a variety of factors, both internal and external.