AI Summary & Key Takeaways
AI InsightAccording to the results of these analyses, it has been determined that there are significant differences between people living in this region in terms of entrepreneurship by their gender, profession, educational level and income
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Abstract
Regional socio-economic segregation, which has been rapidly increased with the Industrial Revolution, is not the problem of only underdeveloped or developing countries, but also one of the major problems of many developed countries. "1973 Oil Crisis" was one of the most important events affected the approach to regional development in this long process from past to the present. Because this crisis directly affected the production activities of developed and industrialized regions (both in national and global level), and indirectly affected the economic activities of other regions (developing and underdeveloped regions), who are depending on these economies, in a negative way. In other words, this crisis has revealed that structural reforms need to be done in underdeveloped regions to let them be viable or at least reduce their dependency on developed and industrialized regions or central governments. In the same period, some structural reforms and projects have begun to be implemented in the regional sense. After the 2000s, Turkey has adopted a new regional development policy due to the increasing globalization with technological advancements and entering a new are in the Turkey-EU (European Union) relations. In this new period, micro projects and entrepreneurship with high added value and involvement of local actors receive more support rather than slow, central-based and macro projects. In such policies to be implemented to reduce the inter-regional disparities; first analyses of financial support, technical support, training programs and then socio-economic, demographic and spatial analyses of the region, where these support policies will be implemented, should be performed in detail. In this study, it has been aimed to perform spatial analysis of TR21 Thrace Region, Nuts Level 3 TR212 (Edirne) region within the scope of a spatial dimension. The survey was conducted on a total of 398 people especially living in in the city center of Edirne in order to determine local potential of the region, select appropriate regional policy tools and create economic value expected. A total of 13 Likert type questions were asked to the participants to determine demographic structure, economic status and thoughts of the participants regarding entrepreneurship. SPSS (Statistical Package of Social Sciences) 17.0 Statistical Package Program was used to analyze the data obtained. According to the results of these analyses, it has been determined that there are significant differences between people living in this region in terms of entrepreneurship by their gender, profession, educational level and income