The government recently give serious attention to higher education by releasing the realistic budget to make all universities both state and private be able to develop themselves. It is aimed to let the university distribute the money for developing teaching and learning process, writing workbooks, doing researches, and serving society. The Directorate of Higher Education offers the budget and invites the universities to create competitive proposals to win in the selection. The motion of the unit business is the knowledge based economy. By having the knowledge we can get the money by promoting and selling the products produced by universities, for example, the farming tools produced, organic fertilizer for growing up the plantation, the hard board as the alternative media for building and the fruity juice produced from blending and fermenting process in laboratory.
The knowledge based economy support and ask university to create the business unit for selling the goods and services products in order to generate income and gain the profit. It is one action to push the university can fulfill their needs without waiting for the government subsidy. One of the significant programs asked by the government, the university should establish the profit unit, called IKK. IKK stands for innovation and campus creativity. IKK give campus the opportunity to sell the product both goods and services as the new invention and innovation, the output teaching and learning process. The production, distribution and sale is aimed to gain the profit for community welfare. Business units are expected to be the legible place for the student to get involved inside as the staff and to do job training. The university business unit wanted and supported by the high education directorate. It is the new program and new solution to help the government to minimize the rate of unemployment.
Business unit is aimed to create the business spirit and grow up the entrepreneurship in campus. The activity will bring the students get closer to the world of entrepreneurship and accelerate the culture of entrepreneurship in campus. The government finally realize that how to accelerate our economic condition, not just depend on the maritime product, agriculture product, and tourism products but we can accelerate the economic the economic condition based on the knowledge. The product both goods and services produced by the education institution could be sold to the public for fulfilling the public needs. By having the unit business, there will be economic activity, transaction and profit gained. Knowledge based economy get a good prospect, opportunity, economy value and copyright for protection and legalization. The government really supports the university unit business by allocating the competitive grant given. They hope all university unit business will be started, and exist forever. The purposes of IKK are expected to accelerate the entrepreneurship culture, to accelerate campus autonomy and to prepare the space for student job training. Business unit is a part of action done by reinventing government. Reinventing government change the static culture of bureaucracy into the dynamic ones service excellent.
The reinventing government must be able to sell their goods, services and compete with private business. The reinventing government must give good public services and focus to serve the people. Business unit finally are expected to be the one problem solving for decreasing the rate of unemployment and bring the wind of change from the job seeker in to the job or business field maker. It is not absolute solution but it is a small part solution to build the spirit of entrepreneurship, get the point and get the coin to accelerate the institution. The presence and existence of business unit bring the positive impact for reach the accreditation institution.