Value Orchestration Platform, Innovation and Knowledge Sharing in Developing Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of Entrepreneurship-Based Pesantren

Abstract

Currently, the development of information and technology has brought a lot of changes in the business world. Businessmen are required to become more innovative to improve their competitiveness. It is a challenge and opportunity for Islamic educational institutions (known as Pesantren) in Indonesia to create new innovation to compete with other educational institutions. Some pesantrens produce a new innovation by adding entrepreneurship concept in their educational system. The students are equipped with entrepreneurship skills with the hope that they can be entrepreneurs in the future. To achieve this goal, effective knowledge sharing becomes important in the process. Not only qualified human resources, an appropriate platform is also needed in creating the process of effective knowledge sharing. Through an exploratory research with a semi-structured interview and the implementation of value orchestration strategies (involvement, curation, and empowerment strategy), the authors try to identify and determine an appropriate platform to be used as media of knowledge sharing in pesantren. The result shows that there are two types of platforms, which are real platform (seminar, forum) and digital (web-based or apps). Those platforms help students, teachers, and other stakeholders to share their knowledge and information to develop entrepreneurship in Indonesia.