چکیده:
Entrepreneurship, is an idea and a process in which an individual or group identifies new opportunities and exploits them successfully. Universities as knowledge producing and knowledge distributing institutions play a greater role in industrial innovation. In fact the emergence of entrepreneurial university is a response to the increasing importance of knowledge in national and regional systems of innovation and new perception of the university. The purpose of this study is to explain and investigate the entrepreneurial capacity of University of Mazandaran. From the statistical population of the study 134 specialists and university authorities were chosen as samples, standard questionnaires were used to collect data and data analysis was performed using SPSS and LISREL software. Structural equation modeling results indicated that, generality of the model is approved after correction of fit indices values (RMSEA = 0.056, NFI = 0.91 & GFI = 0.93). The T-student test results revealed that entrepreneurial capacity and its related aspects are inappropriate conditions in the studied university.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Background and entrepreneurial university models Numerous studies have been conducted to determine the effects of entrepreneurial universities (Bramwell & Wolfe, 2008; Mueller, 2006; Svensson, Klofsten, & Etzkowitz, 2012; Urbano & Guerrero, 2013; Van Looy et al.
, 2011), But to explain the capacity and characteristics of the entrepreneurial university, models and small dimensions have been proposed by researchers so far (Clark, 1998; Gibb, 2012; Guerrero & Urbano, 2012; Röpke, 2000), For example Keast (1995) identified entrepreneurial activities and organizational structure of the university to promote entrepreneurship researches.
The activities related to the knowledge transfer, promoting a culture of entrepreneurship and participation in regional development had the maximum value (Guerrero & Urbano, 2012).
According to the theoretical literature, the provided empirical literature and the research aim which is to explain and investigate the entrepreneurial capacity of the selected universities of Iran, The research questions are stated as: First question: Are the entrepreneurial capacity of university and their components include: vision, mission and strategy of the university, university governance, structure and organizational design, multidisciplinary Trans disciplinary, leverage, stakeholder management and community values, graduates, knowledge transfer, incubator center, risks financing in all subsidiaries derived from universities, Internationalization and investment entrepreneurial education in selected universities, in a good condition?
In this regard, universities and higher education systems are improving their traditional role and moving toward producing the native knowledge and economic growth and reaching regional and international development, which is in fact a kind of movement toward Entrepreneurial universities that are creating the knowledge and new ideas and change them to practice in its best form.