STRENGTHENING ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE ASIAN COMMUNITY

Abstract

Entrepreneurship is the spirit, attitude, behavior and ability of a person in handling business or activities that lead to efforts to find, create, apply the workings of new technologies and products by increasing efficiency in order to provide better services. Whereas Entrepreneurship is someone who is able to see opportunities in the surrounding environment and is able to take advantage of these opportunities to be something of value both for himself and for many people. Entrepreneurship strengthening in a country is very important and needed because after all entrepreneurship plays a role in the economic wheel of a country, creates jobs, sources of state income through taxes, as well as foreign exchange earners from export products that will strengthen foreign reserves, and carry out roles as social functions for advance the nation. But in reality the number of entrepreneurs in Asian countries is still below the average percentage of developed countries. The number of entrepreneurs in Indonesia alone is 3.1%, Malaysia 5%, Singapore 7%, China 10%, Japan 11%, Thailand 4.5%, Vietnam 3.3% of the total population in the country, while almost in every country forward, namely by having entrepreneurship as much as 14% of the total population in the country. From these data, several countries in Asia are still far from being able to reach the percentage of developed countries. Therefore, strengthening entrepreneurship in a country is very important and needed in achieving the country's prosperity and prosperity.