Financial Support of Fırat Development Agency to the bussiness in Malatya region between 2013-2015

Under changing world conditions, countries are in a state of complete desire to achieve a level of development. For this purpose, the first examples of development agencies are seen in Europe and these agencies have started their activities in Turkey in the 1990s. The main purpose of the development agencies is to identify the regions that are intended to be developed within the country and to determine the current situation of these regions and to eliminate the regional development differences by supporting the current situation. The Fırat Development Agency, headquartered in Malatya, was established with the decision of the Council of Ministers dated 14.07.2009 and numbered 15236 published in the Official Paper on 25.07.2009. The study was carried out with 19 financially supported institutions from Fırat Development Agency in the province of Malatya between 2013-2015. With the support of the enterprises that received project support, the screening model was used in the study to determine the advantages that they provide in their capacity and financial status, number of personnel and operational efficiencies. There are 30 questions in the questionnaire developed by the researcher. Percentage and frequency values of the data obtained by the questionnaire were determined. As a result of the research, it has been determined that the project supports provided by the development agency have positively contributed to the employment, production and operation capacity of the enterprises, technology usage situation, product quality and diversity, increase in raw material orders and enterprises gaining competitive advantage against their competitors.