Research Paper
Year: 2020 | Month: February | Volume: 7 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 332-343
The Effect of Youth's Role in Improving Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) In Medan City
Samuel JA Hutagaol1, Erlina2, H.B. Tarmizi2
1Master Student, 2Lecturer,
Regional and Rural Development Planning Study Program, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, Indonesia
Corresponding Author: Samuel JA Hutagaol
ABSTRACT
Medan City, which has the potential of SMEs with a number of products and services that are very feasible to be developed and fostered in the context of accelerating regional development. However, at present there is little interest in youth in MSMEs due to the lack of motivation to enter into entrepreneurship, whether there is youth, intense competition and a relatively low level of education. Many of them are more interested in working as employees or under the leadership of others, because they think that opening their own business requires a fairly long process. The purpose of this study was to analyze the influence of the role of youth as a dynamic, catalyst, motivator, innovator and evaluator on the improvement of MSMEs in Medan City. This research is a quantitative study. This research was conducted on all SMEs in Medan. The research was conducted in January 2019 to June 2019. The results showed that the Youth's Role as a dynamic, catalyst, motivator, innovator and evaluator to improve MSMEs in Medan City. This was seen from calculated F value of 4.256> from the Ftable value of 2.32 at a significance level of 0,000 <0.05. The increase in MSMEs in Medan is seen from the welfare of the community including employment and MSME income levels in financing family life. The existence of employment for young people in the city of Medan and the adequacy of MSME income in financing family life from the presence of MSME shows that it has an impact on the development of a region that is going well and increasing. The role of young people who are able to improve MSMEs in Medan in this case Micro Business through structuring affects regional development, which from an economic aspect will increase economic activities that occur around the area.
Keywords: The Role of Youth, Improving, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), Medan City
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