Technology Entrepreneurship and Access to Financial Resources in Turkey Faik Tanrıkulu and Mertcan Ermiş Abstract Technology entrepreneurship plays a dominant role in the economy and development of the country, especially in this period of increasing competition and globalization. Related developments contribute significantly to the country’s welfare and development level traditional commercial and craft habits have been transformed through technological advances. Developing countries attach impor- tance to strong technology-based sectors to sustain growth and create employment for young people. For this reason, country ministers determine technology entrepre- neurship as the primary target and strategy. Turkey, with 754 billion dollars, is the world’s 19th largest economy by GDP. Currently, the state of technological entre- preneurship in Turkey comprises 60% of the country’s economy (as created by the private sector) and will be examined within our study. In addition, whether this entrepreneurship has access to sufficient financial resources and the changes and innovations made in this field within other countries will also be compared. 1 Introduction Technology entrepreneurship occurs when entrepreneurs come together, formally or informally, to establish links between companies and institutions and manage performance in the local entrepreneurial environment. In addition, this entrepreneur- ship model is considered as the establishment of the ecosystem by coming together with entrepreneurs such as universities, development agencies or financial institu- tions, companies, and angel investors in the field of technology. This ecosystem consists of the interaction of seven characteristics, such as financial capital, equipped talent, market potential, culture, and regulations, and in fact, these seven elements F. Tanrıkulu (*) The School of Humanities and Social Sciences, İstanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey e-mail: ftanrikulu@medipol.edu.tr M. Ermiş Independent Researcher, Istanbul, Turkey © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 H. Dincer, S. Yüksel (eds.), Management Strategies to Survive in a Competitive Environment, Contributions to Management Science, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72288-3_8 107