The effect of innovation culture and intrapreneurship interaction on innovation capability

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of intrapreneurship on innovation culture, and the innovation culture on innovation ability on the firms operating in the manufacturing industry. In addition, the mediation role of the innovation culture in the impact of intrapreneurship on innovation ability was investigated. The target group of the research is constituted by the Turkey's top 1,000 companies identified by the Istanbul Chamber of Industry in 2017. In the study, a pilot study was carried out in 76 companies operating in textile and food industry in Gaziantep. After the pilot study, data was collected with survey method from 286 companies in 20 different sectors in the Turkey's first 1000 industrial companies. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS and AMOS statistical analysis programs by using structural equation modeling. As a result of the study, it has been determined that intrapreneurship significantly influenced innovation culture and innovation ability positively, and the innovation culture significantly influenced innovation ability positively. In addition, it has been observed that innovation culture has a partial mediating role in the effect of intrapreneurship on innovation ability. Product, process and management innovations of manufacturing companies that allocate more resources to R&D have been found to be significantly different.