An evaluation of the current situation of business starters as a result of KOSGEB applied entrepreneurship training (Elazığ case of the years 2015-2018)

Entrepreneurship activities have been continuing since the existence of mankind. People are engaged in various activities to meet their needs and maintain their lives. We define these activities as entrepreneurship in general. Today, entrepreneurship contributes to the development of national economies and the solution of the unemployment problem. For this reason, the governments of the country cannot ignore entrepreneurship while developing economic policies in order to develop entrepreneurship and create entrepreneurship awareness in society and to bring entrepreneurs to the economy. In this context, they give various supports to entrepreneurship in their economic policies. The aim of these supports is to bring potential entrepreneurs into the economy. In addition, thanks to these supporting policies; enterprises established by entrepreneurs; they can compete in economic life, be productive, open to developments and continuous. Various institutions provide training and supports for the development of entrepreneurship in order to improve the economy of our country and increase employment. In the first and second sections of our research, conceptual framework was tried to be formed. In the fourth part, the profiles of entrepreneurs who established their businesses as a result of applied entrepreneurship training organized by KOSGEB based on the qualitative data obtained from the field study were presented and their current situations and views were discussed.