Building Entrepreneurial Networking Quality to Improve the Success of Innovation and Batik SMEs Performance

Abstract

This study is to analyze the improving of the success of innovation and Batik SMEs performance by entrepreneurial networking quality, the quality of entrepreneurial trusting, co-creation, and entrepreneurial orientation. The respondents in this study were 63 owners or the managers of Batik SMEs in Solo, Indonesia. SEM-PLS was used as analysis equipment and WARLPPls version 5 was used to analyzing the data. The result of the study showed that, first, the improvement of success on innovating was only significantly by the quality of entrepreneurial networking and the quality of entrepreneurial trust, while entrepreneurial orientation and co-creation were not able to improve the innovation successful. Secondly, the performance of Batik SMEs could improve significantly when it was influenced by the quality of entrepreneurial networking, co-creation, and the success of innovation, while the entrepreneurial orientation and the quality of entrepreneurial trust could not improve the performance of Batik SMEs significantly.