Judul: Relationship between the Social and Economic Conditions of MSME Owners with Perceptions of Sociopreneur Characteristics
Abstrak: Wirausaha sosial merupakan individu yang mempunyai karakter kewirausahaan dan mampu mengidentifikasi serta memecahkan persoalan sosial. Salah satu caranya yaitu dengan mengembangkan Usaha Mikro, Kecil, dan Mengengah (UMKM) di pedesaan. Persepsi pemilik UMKM sangat penting dalam mempengaruhi respon terhadap usaha-usaha yang dilakukan sociopreneur. Persepsi itu sendiri tidak lepas dari faktor-faktor yang mempengaruhi. Faktor tersebut antara lain faktor kondisi sosial ekonomi yang terdiri dari tingkat pendidikan, tingkat pendapatan, kepemilikan alat transportasi, dan pola interaksi sosial. Persepsi yang diamati meliputi aspek menciptakan nilai sosial, wirausaha sosial, organisasi kewirausahaan sosial, dan orientasi pasar. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kuantitatif yang didukung oleh data kualitatif dengan responden sebanyak 33 orang. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menganalisis kondisi sosial ekonomi pemilik UMKM dan bagaimana persepsinya terhadap karakteristik sociopreneur. Hasil penelitian yang diperoleh menunjukkan bahwa terdapat hubungan yang tidak signifikan antara kondisi sosial ekonomi pemilik UMKM dengan persepsi terhadap karakteristik sociopreneur., Social entrepreneurs are individuals who have entrepreneurial characteristics and are able to identify and solve social problems.One of them is by developing Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in rural areas. The perception of MSME owners is very important in influencing the response to the effortd of the sociopreneur. Perception cannot be separated from the influencing factors. These factors include socio-economic condition consistingof education level, income level, own means of transportation, and social interaction patterns. The perceptions observed included the aspects of creation of social values, social entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurial organizations, and market orientation. This study uses a quantitative approach that is supported by qualitative data with 33 respondents. The purpose of this study was to analyze the socio-economic conditions of MSME owners and how their perceptions of sociopreneur characteristics. The results obtained indicate that there is an insignificant relationship between the socio-economic conditions of MSME owners with the perception of sociopreneur characteristics.
Keyword: Perceptions, Socio-economic conditions, Sociopreneur characteristics

Judul: Keterkaitan Antara Karakter Ideal Wirausahawan dalam Perspektif Islam dengan Keberhasilan Usaha : Survei Persepsi Wirausahawan UMKM di Bogor
Abstrak: Small and Medium Entreprises (SMEs) have a contribution to Indonesia economy. This sector afford to supply manpower up to 97.16% from total national manpower. However, this potency still encounters several factor which are hindering SMEs development in Indonesia. One of the reason is there are many SMEs entrepreneurs which doesn‟t have an ideal entrepreneur character yet. This study analyzes correlation between ideal entrepreneur character in Islamic perspective with the success of business and entrepreneur perception to character in entrepreneurship. Descriptive analysis method is used to analyze entrepreneur perception to character in entrepreneurship, while correlation between ideal entrepreneur characters in Islamic perspective with the success of business is analyzed with Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) method. Result shows that God consciousness (taqwa) has positive effect on characters of entrepreneurs and characters has postive effect on the success of business.
Keyword: Success of Business., SEM, SMEs, Entrepreneurs Character

Judul: The Effect Cassava Leaves Meal in The Diets on Body Weigbt, Percentage of Digestive Tract and Viscera of Mule Duck.
Abstrak: The mule ducks are the crossbreed between common duck females (Anas plathyrhynchos) and muscovy ducks (Cairino moschata) to improve the meat production in order to meet the animal protein requirement of the people. One of the problems in husbandry farming is highly feed cost. This problem can be solved with using highly available local sources and cheapness. Cassava leaves (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is the one local sources which can be used as an alternative feed, because it contains a rather high protein (24.1%) aud vitamin A (10,000-13,000 IU). A highly Hydrocyanide (HCN) as well as crude fiber in the cassava leaves are the limiting factors to be used as poultry diet. The ducks have more ability in digest the crude fiber than chicken. So that, using some cassava leaves in the diet does not make any problem.
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