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Here by we are happy to resent the Volume 7, Issue 2 of the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management-JEIM. It is great to publish issues without giving even a break with very good quality of papers from different fields of research. Therefore, we thanks to all readers and colleagues all over the world, who support us in this journey. As of today, the average downloading per article published in 2017 is 109 and this continuously increasing. We are so happy for the good interest form our colleagues in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship. As usual, we have received great support from Board Members, readers, authors and especially reviewers. We also like to thank to our colleagues for comments and remarks in the name of to improve the impact of the Journal. In this issue, we have very well addressed five research papers from different topics of the immigrants entrepreneurship, relationship between innovation and entrepreneurship, crypto currency and entrepreneurship and finally family entrepreneurship We hope this issue will also provide useful information both researchers, professionals as well as it will also provide useful information policy makers. Finally, I like to remind you that you can access all our past and current issues with no charge. I strongly recommend you to read our publications and I believe this will be helpful for your current research and professional business. By using this opportunity, I wish you a very nice season’s holiday. Best Regards, Cevahir UZKURT Editor-in Chief

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Since the 1980s, it has been widely recognized that innovation and entrepreneurship play a key role in regional economic development. In recent years, many theoretical and empirical studies have often emphasized the importance of innovative role of entrepreneurship for a high level of regional economic development. Inspired from these arguments, this study tries to understand the relationship between the level of regional economic development and the rate of entrepreneurship and innovation. In this study, innovation has played a mediatory role between entrepreneurship and the level of economic development. The main purpose is to demonstrate how the relationship between regional economic development level and entrepreneurship rate changes depending on the level of innovation. The study used mediation analysis and data of 26 NUTS II regions of Turkey for four different years: 1995, 2000, 2005, and 2010. The results, supporting the mainstream arguments in the literature and the main hypothesis, illustrate that the impact of entrepreneurship on the level of economic development is more pronounced especially in regions with higher rates of innovations.

Keywords: Regional Economic Development Level, Entrepreneurship, Innovation
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Although Syrian refugee entrepreneurship is obvious in terms of socio-economic, the drivers of it have not been studied much in the literature. The aim of this study is to examine the reasons of refugees becoming entrepreneurs; more than three million immigrated to Turkey because of domestic turbulence in Syria, in the framework of the push-pull model. For this purpose, in 2016, face-to-face interviews were conducted with a total of 30 Syrian ‘urban entrepreneurs’ in Hatay, Gaziantep, Mersin, and Istanbul. The refugee entrepreneurs, registered to Chambers, have been reached with the snowball method; the responses, answered semi-structured questions with an interpreter, were coded and categorized. Socio-economic problems such as language problems, discrimination, legal problems, unemployment, obstacles to access to resources, and low wages, experienced by Syrian refugees, push for entrepreneurship. Specifically, experienced entrepreneurs before, the willingness to transform these problems into opportunity is the most important factor that pull to be as entrepreneurs.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Refugee Entrepreneurship, Syrian, Push-Pull Theory of Entrepreneurship, Opportunity Entrepreneurship, Necessity Entrepreneurship
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Crypto currencies have been present in the money market for about 10 years. Aggressive increases and decreases in the prices of bitcoin and altcoins, which do not have a central authority behind them, have attracted entrepreneurs all over the world. In this study, an online questionnaire has been applied to 767 participants in order to define the trust perception of consumers towards crypto currencies. The demographical, crypto money usage and investment variables of the participants have been measured with nominal and ratio scales. The test results reveal that, there is a positive correlation between trust and crypto currency investment decision. According to the regression results, trust towards crypto currencies effects the investment decision positively. In addition, a 27 percent of each unit increase in investment amount can be explained by the perceived trust towards the currency.

Keywords: Consumer Behaviors, Bitcoin and Alt coins, Trust, Entrepreneurship
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Purpose: Positive contributions of the innovation capability on the academic success of the students and development of the personal innovation competence by applying up-to-date pedagogies and activities have recently become a significant research topic. Therefore, this study investigated the relationship between students’ individual innovativeness profiles and their academic success in the project development course in a sample of 120 undergraduate students. Methodology: The study adapted into Turkish and applied the “Individual Innovativeness Scale” (IIS) developed by Hurt, Joseph and Cook (1977) to identify the innovativeness profiles of the participants. Findings: The results suggested a statistically significant and positive relationship between the students’ individual innovativeness profiles and their academic success in the project development course. Further, the results indicated a statistically significant difference between female and male students in their academic success of the project development course. Practical Implications: The quantity and quality of research and development lectures that support innovative thinking should be improved. Further, innovative instructional methods could be employed to provide students with reasoning, analytical thinking, critical thinking, reflective thinking, and problem solving skills. Originality: This study was conducted in an authentic learning environment during the 14-week lecture period and the significant relationship between the participants’ innovation profiles and their academic achievement in the project development course was revealed.

Keywords: Project development, project management, innovation, individual differences
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In this research, entrepreneurship perception, the reasons of being entrepreneurship, necessary qualities of entrepreneurship, successor’s selection, entrepreneurship’s expectations from successor was tried to determine by face to face interviewing with company founders and next generations. Semi-structured interviews were done with thirteen entrepreneurships consist of four founder and nine next generations. The results showed that as to entrepreneurships, “commitment to job” and “communication” are the most important features, also the founders of the company have lots of job experienced. While selecting the successors, the hierarchy in the family and sex are effective. Moreover, next generations reported that founders expect companies’ sustainability and development from them however when the founders answered the questions about the expectations from successors, they said that there is no expectation.

Keywords: Family Business, Entrepreneurship Perception, Generations
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