Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management

1-24

Authors: Pınar Özdemir

The economical, social, and technological innovations and changes brought by the 21st century have manifested themselves in many fields, including education, and they have "echoed" in schools of all levels, especially universities. Universities have entered a process of change and gained new features to meet the expectations of the modern age. One of the most important features of these universities, called "Third Generation Universities", is that they are entrepreneurial, they give importance to entrepreneurship, and as a natural result, they provide entrepreneurship education. In this research, entrepreneurship education in Turkish universities is studied by a survey which is designed to evaluate it from the viewpoints of six sub-dimensions. The aim of the survey is to determine the strong and weak aspects of entrepreneurial education in the tertiary level and to see what can be done for a better entrepreneurship education in Turkey.

51-72

Authors: Fatma Nur Karaman Kabadurmuş

Although the effect of corruption on country-level investment is studied widely in literature, only a limited number of research has sought to understand how corruption affects firm-level innovation. Using firm-level data for twenty seven Eastern European and Central Asian countries, we empirically investigate how corruption affects innovation. We find that corruption has a positive effect on the rate of innovation. This finding is robust to alternative measurement proxies.

97-130

Authors: Fatma Altuntaş, Mustafa Kemal Yılmaz

In this study, technology network is drawn based on patent documents. Unmanned vessel technologies (UVTs) are examined by the use of patent analysis. All patent documents are retrieved from the USPTO (The United States Patent and Trademark Office), which is extensively used for patent research in the literature. S-curve is drawn to determine the current technology stage. It is concluded that the UVT is at the growth stage of its technology life cycle. Therefore, it is an acceptable technology for investment. Simple linear regression analysis is then performed in this study to find the answer to the question of which sub-technology related to UVTs should be selected for investment?. The relations among the IPC (International Patent Classification) codes for the UVTs are found through the simple linear regression analysis. A social network analysis software, namely Gephi, is also used to draw technology network for the UVTs as well as strategic technology code networks for the IPC codes. The results of this study show that the UVTs is an emerging technology and can be invested in the future.

155-172

Authors: Ceren Çubukçu

Crowdfunding means gathering small amounts of funds from the crowd. The concept of crowdfunding has become a widespread funding method all over the world for the past few years. In Turkey, crowdfunding is still in its development phase. There have been new developments over the past few months about the subject and the first crowdfunding foundation of Turkey was established in December 2016. In addition, a new law has been drafted which contains the necessary amendments to further expand crowdfunding. In this study, the status of crowdfunding platforms in Turkey was mentioned and the active crowdfunding platforms in our country were examined by content analysis method. These are CrowdFon, FonlaBeni, FonGoGo, AriKovani ve Bulusum platforms. Entrepreneurs can provide necessary financing through these platforms by publishing their projects. According to the results of this study, in Turkey, a supporter who wants a project to be successful funds an average of 215 TL for the project and a successful project gets an average of 44.463 TL.