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This study investigates the impact of corporate entrepreneurship on firm performance in Turkish Hotel Industry. 216 hotels that are four and five star hotels have been surveyed by using questionnaire forms. Corporate entrepreneurship has been conceptualized to include dimensions of innovativeness, risk-taking, proactiveness and competitive aggressiveness; while performance has included financial and non-financial aspects of firm performance. Regression has been conducted to identify the effects of independent variables on financial and non-financial performance. The results of this study prove that three dimensions of CE –proactiveness, innovativeness, and competitive aggressiveness– have positive effects on both financial and non-financial performance.

Keywords: Corporate entrepreneurship, organizational performance, Turkish hotel industry
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Although the effect of corruption on country-level investment is studied widely in literature, only a limited number of research has sought to understand how corruption affects firm-level innovation. Using firm-level data for twenty seven Eastern European and Central Asian countries, we empirically investigate how corruption affects innovation. We find that corruption has a positive effect on the rate of innovation. This finding is robust to alternative measurement proxies.

Keywords: Innovation, Corruption, EECA
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The paper contributes to the on-going discussion on innovation modes and innovation systems in literature Primary data was collected from mining companies in six states in Nigeria. Questionnaire was administered to one hundred and fifty mining companies in the six states-being all companies with mineral title. Questionnaire was used to elicit information on the different sources of information for innovation, the innovation output and financial performance (turnover). One hundred and six questionnaire were completed with accuracy and found useful for analysis. Three models were used to address the study’s objectives: model one and two employed Binary Logistic Regression (maximum likelihood method) was used to determine the strength and direction of the relationship between the information sources and the innovation outputs (technological and non-technological innovations). Model three deployed linear regression (ordinary least square method) to determine the strength and direction of the relationship between innovation output and performance.

Keywords: information sources, technological innovation, non-technological innovation, performance.
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In this study, technology network is drawn based on patent documents. Unmanned vessel technologies (UVTs) are examined by the use of patent analysis. All patent documents are retrieved from the USPTO (The United States Patent and Trademark Office), which is extensively used for patent research in the literature. S-curve is drawn to determine the current technology stage. It is concluded that the UVT is at the growth stage of its technology life cycle. Therefore, it is an acceptable technology for investment. Simple linear regression analysis is then performed in this study to find the answer to the question of which sub-technology related to UVTs should be selected for investment?. The relations among the IPC (International Patent Classification) codes for the UVTs are found through the simple linear regression analysis. A social network analysis software, namely Gephi, is also used to draw technology network for the UVTs as well as strategic technology code networks for the IPC codes. The results of this study show that the UVTs is an emerging technology and can be invested in the future.

Keywords: Unmanned vessel technologies, Patent analysis, S-curve, Linear regression analysis, Technology network
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The purpose of this study is to determine the influence of the values of social responsibility, altruism, honesty and empathy on entrepreneurial tendencies and the role of innovation in this effect. For this purpose, survey data were obtained from the tourism students who are studying in the field of tourism. According to the research results, social entrepreneurs are not only innovative but also self-sacrificing, honest, responsible and empathic individuals. In addition, innovation has a partial effect on the influence of personal values on social entrepreneurship. These results show that individuals with these personal values should be encouraged to social entrepreneurship.

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship, Personal Values, Innovation, Tourism
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Crowdfunding means gathering small amounts of funds from the crowd. The concept of crowdfunding has become a widespread funding method all over the world for the past few years. In Turkey, crowdfunding is still in its development phase. There have been new developments over the past few months about the subject and the first crowdfunding foundation of Turkey was established in December 2016. In addition, a new law has been drafted which contains the necessary amendments to further expand crowdfunding. In this study, the status of crowdfunding platforms in Turkey was mentioned and the active crowdfunding platforms in our country were examined by content analysis method. These are CrowdFon, FonlaBeni, FonGoGo, AriKovani ve Bulusum platforms. Entrepreneurs can provide necessary financing through these platforms by publishing their projects. According to the results of this study, in Turkey, a supporter who wants a project to be successful funds an average of 215 TL for the project and a successful project gets an average of 44.463 TL.

Keywords: Crowdfunding, Crowdfunding Platforms, Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship Finance
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The impact of R&D investments cannot be evaluated separately from the investments made in information technologies in today’s highly digitalized knowledge economy. Besides, there is a mixed evidence in the prior management literature on the impact of expensive R&D investments on either firm productivity or firm performance measures. This study explores the role of IT as a catalyst in enhancing the productivity of R&D processes using a unique multi-year firm level data of large global firms all over the world. The findings suggest that R&D and IT do not simply interact for better firm performance at all circumstances. The interaction effects are observed for industrial firms that spend more on R&D relative to their peers in the same industry; but not for firms that are in more knowledge-intensive industries. This study sheds light on the joint effects of R&D and IT making several other implications for companies and practitioners.

Keywords: R&D, Information technology, firm performance, interaction effects
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