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In addition to providing capital and business opportunities, entrepreneurship curriculum policy should also be able to raise the motivation for prospective young entrepreneurs. This is because the population of interest and motivation to perform self-employment is still considered prosperity can not be achieved by simply relying on the role and state guarantees.

U.S. economist David McClelland says, it takes a country to move forward is to motivate individuals to get the glory (need for achievement). In the postwar world economy literature II, the term is known as the McClelland formula. The formulation is believed to be the handle of the Western countries who managed to score a lot of entrepreneurs in order to achieve prosperity. When compared with Indonesia, it is very much different. Of the approximately 240 million people, Indonesia has about 500,000 new entrepreneurs or 0.18% of total Indonesia’s natural wealth and the potential is enormous.

Ideally, a country has entrepreneurs around 2% of the total population. In the United States, the number of entrepreneurs reached 11.5% of the total population, while Singapore has an entrepreneur with a small population of 7.2% of total population. This fact should for Indonesia to be motivated to catch up. Orientation principle awards and prosperity can only be achieved through working in a professional manner and rely on the state’s role should be changed. Indonesia is huge potential.

According to the survey of Asia’s Best Young Entrepreneurs 2009 (Business Week), Indonesia is considered as the producer put the nine vice-businessmen Indonesia. While other Asian countries represent no more than 3 people. According to poll results, a majority or 77% of respondents are optimistic entrepreneurship education will improve student motivation and student to start a business.

Meanwhile, only 11% of respondents who answered this policy is not able to raise the motivation and 12% of respondents answered do not know.