Demographic Bonus of Human Resources and Increased Innovation: Case Study on SMEs Bali Province

Abstract

The digital era makes change faster, various innovations are created in various industries. Leaders play an important role in realizing innovation in an organization. The demographic bonus in the form of the number of productive age human resources owned by the Indonesian nation will be the support for the creation of innovation. This study aims to examine the role of Cognitive Intelligence Competencies, Emotional Intelligence Competencies, Social Intelligence Competencies, leaders of creative Small and Medium Industries (IKM) in Bali Province in increasing innovation. The research subjects in this study were IKM leaders in Bali Province who were engaged in the creative industries, namely crafts, fashion and culinary, totaling 616 and the number of samples selected using the Slovin method so that a total of 242 people were obtained. This study found that Cognitive Intelligence Competencies, Emotional Intelligence Competencies, Social Intelligence Competencies were not able to directly influence innovation. In this study it was found that the competencies possessed by leaders in the form of Cognitive Intelligence Competencies, Emotional Intelligence Competencies, Social Intelligence Competencies cannot directly affect the creation of innovation. In the next research, research can be carried out in addition to leadership competencies, other things that can encourage innovation among SMEs actors.