Summary


THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDIVIDUAL INNOVATION, SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP PERCEPTIONS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AWARENESS OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND INVESTIGATING IT ACCORDING TO SOME VARIABLES

The purpose of this study is to ascertain how university students' views on social entrepreneurship and individual inventiveness relate to their knowledge of sustainable development, and to investigate this relationship based on a number of demographic variables. The data collection tool used in the study consists of four parts. The first part consists of the Personal Information Form (gender, age, unit of study, grade point average, mother's education level, father's education level, family income status, mother's occupation, father's occupation, student's social entrepreneurship, sustainable development and and individual inventiveness training, student's knowledge about student's social entrepreneurship, sustainable development and and individual inventiveness), the second part consists of the Individual Innovativeness Scale developed by Hurt, Joseph and Cook (1977) and adapted into Turkish by Kılıçer and Odabaşı (2010), the third part consists of the Social Entrepreneurship Characteristics Scale developed by Konaklı and Göğüş (2013), and the fourth part consists of the Attitude Towards Sustainable Development Scale developed by Baisutti and Frate (2017) and adapted into Turkish by Demirel and Sungur (2018). IBM SPSS 22.0 software was used to analyze the data and frequency, percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, and Cronbach alpha was calculations were made. As a result of the research, it was determined that university students' perceptions of individual innovativeness were at a high level in the individual innovativeness variable and risk-taking, intellectual leadership and openness to experience sub-dimensions, except for the resistance to change sub-dimension. Their perceptions of social entrepreneurship were also at a high level. Moreover, It was determined that the sustainable development awareness of university students was at a very high level.



Keywords

Individual Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainable Development, University Students



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