Presentation of a model for creating knowledge- based firms in Islamic Azad University units of Gilan province

Subject Areas : Social Science Quarterly

Mahnaz Kargar ¹ , Kioumars Niazazari ² , Taraneh Enayati ³

1 - PhD Student in educational management, Sari Branch,Islamic Azad university, Sari, Iran.
2 - Professor at the Department of educational management, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad university, Sari, Iran
3 - .Associate Professor at the Department of educational management, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad university,Sari, Iran.

Received: 2018-01-26 Accepted : 2018-05-10 Published : 2018-05-22

Keywords: " model ", " universities ", " knowledge – based firms ",

Abstract :

Abstract The present study which was both qualitative and quantitative research was performed to present a model for creating knowledge based firms in Universities. The statistical population in the qualitative section consists of heads, deputies, heads of colleges, and managers and in the quantitative section was the faculty member. In the qualitative section, 13 people were interviewed and in a quantitative section 267 participants were selected as a sample from 869 persons according to Cochran formula.Based on the analysis of qualitative data from deep and exploration interviews, their coding, content analysis and comparing them with theoretical foundation, it was revealed that 4 major factors and 120 minor factors contribute to the creation of knowledge-based firms in universities. the findings showed that at the individual or personal level, creativity had the greatest factorial 0/77, at managerial level, officials` support towards the founders of knowledge-based firms had 0/81, In organizational factors, the component of the establishment of knowledge based companies according to the needs of the region and the existing disciplines showed 0/81 and finally at the organizational level, suitable business planning to convert an idea into product via governmental support had 0/84. Other variables were also important in the next steps, respectively. The final model of the study was confirmed with indexes of fit and coefficient of standard. The highest coefficient of influence was related to managerial factor( 0.89) and the lowest coefficient of influence was individual factor(0/72).