4 (1), 2015
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From Editor
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to inform you that the sixth issue of the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management (JEIM) is out. As it is well known among the researchers, sustainability of successful journal is very difficult. As a team, we like to thanks to our member of Editorial Board, reviewers and researchers to help us to bring six successful issues and hope to continue this way. In this issue we have five research papers from different countries on the topics of the innovation and entrepreneurship. We believe that these research papers will be very helpful for the further research papers and projects.
We are also grateful to researchers for submitting their papers and following the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management. We also thanks to our reviewers for their endless effort and time during the peer review process. Without their help, it wouldn’t be possible to bring this issue onto your table and/or screen.
Last but not least, we have new website where you can easily access to current and previous issues. Through the new website, you can register to our database as author and reviewer. Hereby, I like to invite each of you to register our database (http://betadergi.com/jeim/yonetim/login/uyelik.php) as a reviewer and author. We need your contribution and your presence will be very helpful for the future of the journal.
We are hoping to that this issue will help many of us to extend our understanding of the covered topics and also will be based of further research papers. Wish you a nice summertime and looking forward to receive your papers for coming issues.
Best Regards
Prof. Dr. Cevahir UZKURT
Editor-in Chief
Cem Işık & Sağbetullah Meriç
Evaluation of Hotel Managers Within The Individual Innovative Scope: Sample of VanIn this study, innovation levels of people working in management
positions of 4-5 star hotel companies operating in the province of
Van and their categories were examined under investigation. For this
purpose, data obtained by questionnaire technique of quantitative research methods were analyzed with SPSS version. Results obtained
from the study show that individual innovation averages of hotel
managers operating in the tourism of Van province take place in
the experience in the opening size as middle level of innovation. In
addition, it was determined that more than half of these managers are
located in inquisitive, pioneer, skeptics, innovative and traditionalist
ranking.
Keywords: Innovation, Individual Innovative, Tourism, Hotel, Manager
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A Field Study on Social InnovationToday, social innovation is an important proposition for responding
social needs. However, there are a few studies on social innovation and
there isn’t common theoretical framework when looking the relevant
literature. In this study, a survey is prepared based on literature
review and applied to the experts. With this approach, defining the related components and the factors affecting social innovation is the
main objective of this study. According to the survey results, social
entrepreneurship has the highest interaction with social innovation
and “social expectations” is the most important factor influencing
the generation of social innovations. In addition, the most important
attribute that social innovations contain is defined as the development
potential on social areas such as education, health, environment and
economy. The most important role in the process of social innovation is
stated to be taken by municipalities.
Keywords: social innovation, social entrepreneurship, Turkey
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The Impact of Gender on the Entrepreneurial Start-Up Activities of Selected Obafemi Awolowo University StudentsStudent entrepreneurship is now a common phenomenon in
universities both in developed and developing countries. In Nigeria,
research on student’s entrepreneurship is still on-going. This study
assessed the impact of gender on the entrepreneurial activities of
272 students of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Family
background, source of motivation, type of business, source of capital,
and factors influencing non-involvement in business of some students
were investigated. Results suggest that more males are involved in
business than female students. Other results suggest that there are
differences between the entrepreneurial activities of male and female
students but most of the differences are not significant. However, a
strong association was found between gender and lack of business flair
among those that were not involved in business.
Keywords: activities, entrepreneurial, gender, Obafemi Awolowo University, students
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Bolivian Innovation Policies: Building an Inclusive Innovation SystemThis study explores the policy paths the Bolivian government has
followed in the last three decades to organize science, technology, and
innovation. We present strategies proposed by the government to make
its National Innovation System more dynamic and socially inclusive.
We analyse the process and strategies followed under the light of the
Triple Helix (government-industry-university) model of innovation.
Keywords: Innovation system; Triple Helix; inclusive innovation; developing countries; Bolivia.
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Innovation Entrepreneurship at Universities in the Emerging Innovation SystemsThe study aims to analyze the transformation of Russian universities
into the innovation actors. We described the concepts of university
role in modern society and adapted them to the Russian reality. The
paper identifies the main features of Russian universities as innovation
actors. We described the state support to Russian universities relating
to their innovation activity, in particular, the Federal Act of the Russian
Federation № 217 on the establishing small innovation enterprises at
public universities. The results of this Act implemented are shown; the
obstacles to the creation of small innovation enterprises at Russian public
universities are identified. We developed the model of organizational
structure of small innovation enterprises at Russian public universities.
Keywords: Small innovation enterprise, university-industry collaboration.
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