Investigation of the effect of entrepreneurship education on entrepreneurship tendencies: The case of Firat University

Nowadays, entrepreneurship has been one of the key factors which plays role in economic development thanks to high improvement of technology and easy access to information. Entreprenuership has been crucial economic power to provide social and personal welfare and to increase life standarts of individuals. The importance given to entrepreneurship is also increasing the interest which felt on entrepreneurship education. Entreprenurship education is one of the key factors to understand young people and to increase their entreprenuerial attitudes. Potential entrepreneurs should be supported and developed with education, because of education's effect to aims and thoughts of young people (Wang & Wong, 2004). The purpose of this research is to analyze the effects of the entrepreneurship trainings received by the individuals at entrepreneurship courses on their entrepreneurship tendencies.