A RESEARCH ON THE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION TENDENCIES OF THE STUDENTS OF FIRAT UNIVERSITY

Purpose- This study is Firat University undergraduate students oriented and it has been studied to determine the innovation inclinations of these students. Innovations serves as a driving force for both society and economy. Today universities are quite effective adopting and spreading innovations. Creating environment and conditions for enhancing students' innovation inclinations in our country, will make us feeling this effect more. In this way, a society that can temporize to social and technological innovations quickly and provides accretion value to the country by achieving these innovations, can be built. Methodology- This study was carried out to measure the tendencies on innovation and points of view of university students on technological innovation. The survey consists of short answered, scaled, ordinal by priority and multiple-choice 47 questions. Findings- In the analyzes, the respondents' demographics and trends towards technological innovation were evaluated respectively. In the paper, primarily, innovation and technological innovation notions will be explained and after these descriptions some assessments will be made about which specialities of students and their environment affect innovation inclinations.  Conclusion- Finally, some suggestions were made to support the technological innovation trends of university students.