Abstract:

With globalization, the importance given to entrepreneurship in the world and in Turkey is increasing on a daily basis. Increasing entrepreneurship, one of the most important elements in their economic development, is a matter of importance for the countries. High-tech developing countries owes a significant part of their development to entrepreneurship. The discovery of individuals’ native entrepreneurial abilities, first with family support and then with state incentive, has become one of the elementary needs of today’s economy. Many developing countries have implemented various practices to reveal the entrepreneurial potential in individuals. One of the most important aspects of this practice is education. With the introduction to entrepreneurship in the educational programmes, it aims to reveal the entrepreneurial skills of individuals and to correctly guide the entrepreneurial trends. In Turkey in recent years, all universities in all departments of entrepreneurship courses have been added to the educational curriculum of universities. One of these universities, Kastamonu University Tourism Faculty students are considered as potential entrepreneurs with the entrepreneurship courses they receive and the application of the study is done with them. This study aims to identify the differences between students’ entrepreneurial trends according to their demographic characteristics.  In this study, Yılmaz and Sünbül have developed the scale. In the framework of the study, between 25 December 2017 and 10 January 2018 with the easy sampling method, 461 students identified in 585 students were subjected to face-to-face survey and the data collected were analyzed using the SPSS program. The results of the analyses made at the University of Kastamonu School of Tourism have determined significant differences according to gender in determination, external transparency, self-confidence, innovation and opportunity factors, and the result is that male students have a more stable, open to the outside, self-confidence, innovative and opportunistic structure than girls students. It is also concluded that there is no significant difference in risk taking, self-confidence, external transparency and innovation factors according to class levels, while there is no significant difference in determination and opportunity factors. The study found that male students tend to be more entrepreneurial and that their entrepreneurial trends increased as the age and education levels of students increase. Thus, it has been concluded that entrepreneurship is a facet that can be taught, and that with the increase in the maturity and education levels of individuals, the entrepreneurship trends will also increase.