EVALUATION OF HANDS-ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP TRAININGS ON THE BASIS OF PROVINCES, NUTS-I AND NUTS-II REGIONS BY FUZZY BWM AND AROMAN METHODS

Abstract

The level of a country's entrepreneurship ecosystem is an important indicator that serves the economic development of that country. In today's world, governments resort to various instruments to strengthen the entrepreneurship infrastructure. In Türkiye, a significant part of these activities is implemented by KOSGEB. Since 2010, Hands-On Entrepreneurship Trainings are one of the initiatives that contribute to this objective. In this study, the performances of each province, NUTS-I regions and NUTS-II regions in Türkiye in terms of benefiting from entrepreneurship supports are analysed. The criteria used during the evaluation are weighted by Fuzzy BWM method where the most important criterion is determined as “number of enterprises supported following the trainings". In the performance ranking performed by AROMAN method TR6, TR3 and TR4 regions are ranked in the first three order as the most successful NUTS-I regions. In addition, a similar evaluation is carried out in terms of provinces and NUTS-II regions.