The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem as a Success Factor for Startups -The Turkish Experience as a Model-

Abstract

This study aims to shed light on the entrepreneurial ecosystem and its contribution to startups success, as well as presenting the Turkish experience in this field.
To achieve these objectives, a combination of three methods has been used: the descriptive and analytical method, the case study method, and the comparative method.
The study reached a set of results, the most important, is that the entrepreneurial ecosystem is the platform that supports the creation and the growth of startups, through its contribution in creating opportunities and providing an appropriate environment that helps entrepreneurs launching their startups; and that the Turkish entrepreneurial ecosystem reached a new level, due to the efforts of both public and private sectors, in providing a suitable environment for the activity of startups.