Scale-Up Collaboration Model of Village-Owned Enterprises for Increasing Village Economy

Abstract

BUMDES is a village economic institution that until now has become an important part in realizing village economy independence. In Indonesia nowadays there are almost 50,000 BUMDES with details of 1,000 developed ones, 10,000 developing ones, and 30,000 BUMDES that are still in the pilot stage. One of the efforts that can be done in increasing BUMDES business is BUMDES scale up program. This program can help increase the management of BUMDES in aspects of institutional, innovation, digitalization, and sustainability. BUMDES scale-up must be conducted in collaboration among several parties, including BUMDES, academics, and industry. This research is a formulation of efforts to increase the performance of BUMDES, which aims at developing BUMDES scale-up collaboration model for increasing the village economy. This research uses a qualitative approach using primary data collected using Focus Group Discussion (FGD) technique for BUMDES, academics, and industry. The analysis used are qualitative descriptive and CIPP (Context evaluation, Input evaluation, Process evaluation, and Product evaluation). The results of research have found that BUMDES scale-up collaboration model for increasing the village economy through tripartite cooperation of BUMDES - Academics - Industry has been proven to be able to overcome two problems occurred in BUMDES. Academics are able to help examine the potential and formulate the innovation designs, also provide the training and mentoring. Industry is able to assist in the aspect of technology and market access. The results of research can be a role model in BUMDES scale-up efforts to increase the village economy.