The effect of intrapreneurship on innovation capacity: An application in innovative companies of Gaziantep

Intrapreneurship is the concept used to describe the entrepreneurial orientation and activities inside existing organization and it has ben attracting a great attention of management field in the recent years. Intrapreneurship is so important factor for innovation activity. The concept of intrapreneurship is defined `the process of developing new products and new markets? to emphasize of relationship between intrapreneurship and innovation. In this context, basic aim of this research is to determine the effects of intrapreneurship level in organizations on innovation capacity and to demonstrate the relationship between intrapreneurship level and innovation activity.In this research shows that there is a positive and meaningful relationship between intrapreneurship and innovation and intrapreneurship has a determining influence on innovation. Also sub-dimensions of intrapreneurship `encouragement by management and organization?, `individual motivation?, `enabling working environment? and `encouragement to innovation? has a positive and meaningful relationship but `transparency, openness and communality?, `individual competence? and `development? has a negative relationship with the innovation capacity in organizations.