AN ANALYSE FOR DETERMINING SOCIAL CAPITAL LEVEL OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF CREATIVE ECONOMY APPROACH

Creative class is the driving force of creative economy approach as a regional development policy. If the quality and effectiveness of higher educated creative class will be increased, regional development level will be increased. Although social capital is a new phenomenon in development literature as creative economy, it has critical roles on human capital and human development. Creative class with a high level social capital will have a advance role in regional development. Social capital level of university students are measured by frequency analyse in the study. As a result of analyse, it is seen that, tolerance level and regional loyalty of university students are sufficient but there are shortages of thrust level and network capabilities. Social capital level of university students can be increased by using thrust and network capability promoting policies. By this way, quality and efficiency of creative class will be increased and regional development will gain acceleration