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Mohammadpour Kachlami H, Hosseini S R, Badizadeh A, Mousavi A. (2022). Investigating the Status of Entrepreneurship Development Levels in the Iranian University System. Iranian Journal of Educational Sociology. 5(1), 248-257. doi:10.61186/ijes.5.1.248
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1- PhD student, Department of Entrepreneurship (Technology), Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
2- Assistant Professor, Educational Management, Shahid Chamran Campus, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding Author)
3- Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
4- Assistant Professor, Research Department of Science and Research Policy, National Science Policy Research Center, Tehran, Iran
2- Assistant Professor, Educational Management, Shahid Chamran Campus, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding Author)
3- Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Qazvin Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran
4- Assistant Professor, Research Department of Science and Research Policy, National Science Policy Research Center, Tehran, Iran
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Purpose: Entrepreneurship development is one of the important concepts of recent decades that higher education has an important role in promoting it. As a result, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the status of entrepreneurship development levels in the Iranian university system.
Methodology: This study was a descriptive from type of survey. The research population was managers of calligraphy organizations and professors of entrepreneurship disciplines of country in 2020 year. The research sample was 72 people who were selected by cluster sampling method and answered the researcher-made questionnaire of entrepreneurship development in the university system (82 questions). The face and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by 20 experts and its reliability by Cronbach's alpha method was obtained 0.91. Data were analyzed by binomial test in SPSS software.
Findings: Findings showed that the entrepreneurship development in the Iranian university system at the institutional level (and its components including cultural factors and social factors) and policy level (and its components including actors in the field of entrepreneurship areas, entrepreneurial elements, policy-making stages and policy-making institutions) was above the average and at the individual level (and its components including individual factors and psychological factors) was below the average (P<0.05).
Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study, officials and planners of entrepreneurship development in the Iranian university system should take steps to improve the curriculum and holding entrepreneurship training courses in order to improving the individual level of entrepreneurship development and the personal and psychological characteristics of entrepreneurs
Methodology: This study was a descriptive from type of survey. The research population was managers of calligraphy organizations and professors of entrepreneurship disciplines of country in 2020 year. The research sample was 72 people who were selected by cluster sampling method and answered the researcher-made questionnaire of entrepreneurship development in the university system (82 questions). The face and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by 20 experts and its reliability by Cronbach's alpha method was obtained 0.91. Data were analyzed by binomial test in SPSS software.
Findings: Findings showed that the entrepreneurship development in the Iranian university system at the institutional level (and its components including cultural factors and social factors) and policy level (and its components including actors in the field of entrepreneurship areas, entrepreneurial elements, policy-making stages and policy-making institutions) was above the average and at the individual level (and its components including individual factors and psychological factors) was below the average (P<0.05).
Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study, officials and planners of entrepreneurship development in the Iranian university system should take steps to improve the curriculum and holding entrepreneurship training courses in order to improving the individual level of entrepreneurship development and the personal and psychological characteristics of entrepreneurs
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Received: 2022/01/29 | Accepted: 2022/06/21 | Published: 2022/06/21
Received: 2022/01/29 | Accepted: 2022/06/21 | Published: 2022/06/21
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