The Influence of Entrepreneurial Competence, Digital Transformation And Innovation Behavior on The Development of SMEs

Entrepreneurial orientation has become a highly significant construct in the innovation studies literature.
Especially for SMEs, its role has been widely recognised in almost all regional contexts around the world. This
study aims to determine how much influence entrepreneurial competence, digital transformation and innovation
behaviour have on the development of SMEs. This type of research is descriptive with a quantitative approach,
the data source uses primary data with data collection methods through distributing questionnaires. The
population in this study were 40 respondents using non-probability sampling techniques using saturated samples.
The data analysis method used is multiple inear regression to test the hypothesis built using the SPSS tool. The
results of this study indicate that the entrepreneurial competency variable affects the development of SMEs, the
transformation variable has a significant effect on the development of SMEs, and the product innovation variable
affects the development of SMEs.
Keyword: entrepreneurial competencies, digital transformation, innovation behavior, small and medium
enterprises