Abstract:

As the transformation process of innovative ideas into the new products, services or new business, entrepreneurship is a significant dynamics element for economic development and growth. The subject of entreprenurship has been connected with several economic parameters so that entrepreneurial performance of an evironment has been viewed as a very important input of the economic decisions there. In this study, first the concepts of entrepreneur and entrepreneurship were defined; and factors effecting entrepreneurship and importance of entreprenurship for economic development have been emphasized. Later, entrpreneurial performance of Afyonkarahisar province has been put on the map by the assistance of geographical information systems on basis of companies in Afyonkarahisar and its districts.