Digital Entrepreneurship in Indonesia: A Human Capital Perspective

Digital technology has become a new economic and social force, reshaping traditional business models, strategies, structures, and processes.
This is a challenge for human capital to develop continuously in this dynamic era; one of the solutions is digital entrepreneurship. Digital
entrepreneurship focuses on creating new ventures and transforming existing businesses by developing novel digital technologies or
novel usage. Further, digital technology has also enabled the growth of the sharing economy, linking owners and users, and disrupting
the previous dualism of businesses and customers. This paper provides a novel contribution regarding the emerging concept of Digital
Entrepreneurship. Based on a qualitative literature review and interview with university staff, lecturers, and students in four large public
and private universities in West Java and DIY Province, an interpretative framework for Digital Entrepreneurship has been proposed, which
comprises of the following components: motivation (the rationale for the adoption of digital technology for academic entrepreneurship),
stakeholders (the stakeholders involved through digital technology to achieve the academic entrepreneurship goal), process (the processes of
academic entrepreneurship supported by digital technologies), and business form (the emerging forms of digital academic entrepreneurship).
This research also shows several alternative government policies to improve digital entrepreneurship in the academic environment.