9th International Conference on Research in Business, Management and Economics, Berlin, Almanya, 20 - 22 Aralık 2024, cilt.2, sa.1, ss.28-49
In this research, a survey consisting of 116 questions, 95 technical and 21 general, was prepared in order to analyse the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a result of the literature research on entrepreneurship. All questions were directed to the entrepreneurial firm officials participating in the research from different regions in Türkiye, and a statistical database was created from answers received. The survey consists of three sections: personal information of entrepreneur, information about entrepreneurial firm, and technical analysis section where the entrepreneur firm is evaluated. Within the scope of the research, a survey was applied to 304 incubation firms. Related dimensions in the questionnaire are used to evaluate the performance of the entrepreneurial firms based on the clusters. Cluster analysis is applied to the research data to evaluate and group the entrepreneur firms. The general entrepreneur profile in the research is obtained with basic statistical analyses and descriptive statistics; incubation firms are grouped according to their performances in terms of the determined variables with Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and K-Means Cluster Analysis. The aim of the study is to statistically evaluate the competency levels and performance of entrepreneurial firms by comparing them in different clusters. All performance results are evaluated and firms are analysed based on the entrepreneurial ecosystems. The study purposes to analyse entrepreneurial firms by using K-means clustering with the PCA method. In the research, the competency evaluations of entrepreneurs are interpreted depending on the performance clusters. As a result of the analysis, performance clusters were evaluated over 8 clusters.