ACCELERATING ENTREPRENEURSHIP COMPETENCY IN HIGHER EDUCATION GRADUATES THROUGH COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE LEARNING
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2004-09-21
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Konferensi Internasional SEAAIR 2004
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The development of using Competitive Intelligence (CI) in industrial sector has brought about new competency needs of Higher Education (HE) graduates that are Entrepreneurship Competency (EC). In the mean time, the implementation of '-..1 in HE, especially in Indonesia is considered as a new thing. Therefore, HE as the agent of change in the society should respond to such changes immediately through CI learning in HE by developing EC for its graduates. In this case CI could be used to assist the student learning to control and monitor external information in the field of economics, knowledge, technology, social science, environment, politics, patents, and business competition. HE that applies CI learning is believed could accelerate the establishing of EC for their graduates. To implement CI, Dou (2003) introduces four CI cycle levels, these are: (l) Information gathering, (2) Information management, (3) Information Analysis, and (4) Information understanding. The transformation of raw materials of information into strategic information that has more added value happened in these CI cycles and this is called knowledge -intelligence. Through CI learning, HE graduates not only.have the competency as job seekers but also as job creators.
This study reported that CI learning could be implemented by: (1) special lecture topics are given by all study program, or (2) CI only being a part of course content 1)1' several lecture topics, such as: Strategic Management, Decision Making, Marketing Management, Management of Information System, or other relevant lecture topics.
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Competitive Intelligence, Entrepreneurship Competence.
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