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Turkish Entrepreneurship in Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2013

Tüzýn Baycan
Tüzýn Baycan*
Affiliation:
Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Istanbul Technical University, Taşkışla TR-34437 Taksim, Istanbul, Turkey. E-mail: tbaycan@itu.edu.tr
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Abstract

Turkish migrants constitute the largest migrant community as well as the largest migrant entrepreneurial group in many European countries. Recent studies state that today 1 in 10 Turkish families is self-employed and the number of Turkish entrepreneurs operating all over EU member states has exceeded 100,000. Projections suggest that 190,000 Turkish entrepreneurs will be living in the EU member states in 2020 while employing over 1 million people. An increasing involvement of second-generation migrants in entrepreneurial activities, as well as the new orientations from traditional to non-traditional sectors and transnational activities, has led to a transformation from ‘Migrant Entrepreneurship’ towards the ‘New European Entrepreneurship’.

Type
Focus: Turkey and Europe
Information
European Review , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , July 2013 , pp. 382 - 393
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Copyright © Academia Europaea 2013 

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