From dependency to innovation: a community-based entrepreneurial ecosystem model for coastal youth in Indonesia

Ismail Rasulong and A. Ifayani Haanurat

Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 2026, 1-21

Abstract: PurposeThis study aims to examine how livelihood dependency, local resources and stakeholder relations shape youth entrepreneurship in four coastal villages in Takalar Regency, Indonesia, and how these conditions informed a locally grounded business-incubator framework.Design/methodology/approachThe study used a qualitative, participatory rural appraisal-informed participatory co-design approach. Fieldwork was conducted from March to July 2025 in Boddia, Palalakkang, Tamalate and Tamasaju. Thirty-four adult coastal youth aged 18–30 participated in four village focus groups, while 16 key informants contributed through semi-structured interviews. Observation, document review, resource mapping, village-level problem ranking, livelihood-flow analysis, stakeholder mapping, matrix scoring, force-field analysis and validation discussions connected diagnosis to model refinement. Village problem-ranking scores are treated as facilitated group judgements rather than individual responses or formal consensus measures, while incubator-component totals represent comparative planning priorities across four equally weighted criteria.FindingsDifficult access to formal finance and the absence of sustained mentoring received the highest cross-village totals (19 of 20), followed by weak digital marketing (17). Participatory livelihood analysis showed that patron-client relations provide boats, equipment, work and emergency finance, while simultaneously limiting asset accumulation, pricing autonomy and enterprise diversification. Co-design shifted the proposed intervention from generic, one-off training towards sustained product mentoring, practical digital support, phased local finance, explicit stakeholder roles and safeguards against elite capture.Originality/valueThe study advances entrepreneurial-ecosystem and stakeholder-governance arguments into a peripheral maritime setting by demonstrating how bonding ties can be protective and restrictive at the same time. Its immediate contribution is a participatively refined intervention framework and prospective six-month implementation targets; it does not claim evidence of incubator effectiveness or causal livelihood impact.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial orientation; Business incubator; Enterprising communities; Community; Social capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1108/JEC-05-2026-0212

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