Innovation ecosystem affecting metacognitive awareness on innovative entrepreneurship of university students

The main purpose of this study is to determine the relationships between university students' metacognitive awareness of innovative entrepreneurship and the environmental characteristics that support and constitute an obstacle to innovative entrepreneurship in the ecosystem. In order to achieve this main goal, a scale that can measure the metacognitive awareness of university students regarding innovative entrepreneurship has been developed. With this developed scale, a research questionnaire form was created with questions to determine the demographic characteristics of the participants, behavioral characteristics towards innovative entrepreneurship and environmental characteristics. The questionnaire form was applied to 1660 students attending the final year of undergraduate studies of different faculties and departments in 12 universities in 10 provinces selected on the basis of TUBITAK's entrepreneurial and innovative university index in 2015, 2016 and 2017. The survey application was conducted in two ways, online and face to face. SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) for Windows 25.0 program was used in the analysis of the data collected to achieve the research objectives. In this study, it was investigated whether there is a significant difference between metacognitive awareness of innovative entrepreneurship and demographic characteristics and behavioral characteristics of innovative entrepreneurship. At the same time, it was investigated whether there is a significant difference between demographic characteristics and behavioral characteristics related to innovative entrepreneurship with the descriptive questionnaire aimed at determining the environmental characteristics. Within the scope of the main purpose of the study, the relationship between university students' metacognitive awareness of innovative entrepreneurship and the characteristics of the environment that constitute an obstacle and support for innovative entrepreneurship in the ecosystem were examined. For this reason, according to the results of the correlation analysis it was found that there is a significant relationship between these two variables. Within this scope, in the first part innovative entrepreneurship, in the second part innovation ecosystem, in the third part metacognitive awareness, in the fourth part research method and findings were explained. Finally, besides presenting these statistical findings, the results of the study were evaluated and discussed, and various suggestions were presented for both managers and researchers.