Designing a model of academic entrepreneurship assessment, a new approach for comparability of future universities
Subject Areas : FuturologyJavad Tavasoli Noghabi 1 , Hamideh Reshadatjoo 2 , Mohammadali Hosseini 3
1 - PhD Student of Educational Management. Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University (SRBIAU). Department of Management & Economic. Tehran, IRAN.
2 - Associate Professor of Higher Education Management. Faculty Member of Faculty of Management and Economics, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch of Tehran. Tehran, IRAN.
3 - Rehabilitation Management Department of University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Keywords: Academic Entrepreneurship, Model of Academic Entrepreneurship assessment, Future University, Islamic Azad University of Mashhad,
Abstract :
This research is done to present the academic entrepreneurship evaluation model . The Descriptive research method is operational and through medley manner. Data of qualitative part were collected according to the documentary approach and a semi-structured interview with 20 professionals. These people have been chosen through purposive sampling style to theoretically saturate the information. The details were analyzed, coded in MAXQDA and based on the preliminary indicates which were identified, the form with 5 dimensions,32 components and 66 indicators was designed. In the quantitative part, a total of 148 people were sampled by simple random sampling among faculty members in the Azad University. The data of this part were validated by the method of structural equations based on partial least squares using the smart-PLS. According to the figures, evaluation of university entrepreneurship (with structural validity of 0.90) includes five components of evaluation of academic entrepreneurship stimuli (12 indicators,0.68), enables (10 indicators,0.83), third flow activities (28 indicates,0.93), effects internal (6 indicators,0.81) and external influences (10 indictors,0.88) that each of the components explains with 22,21,26,24 and 23% changes in the structure of academic entrepreneurship evaluation, respectively. The value of the SRMR fit index of the saturation model is 0.085. This model with presenting the view of actors and university entrepreneurship components and their key indicators creates an optimal understanding of measuring the academic entrepreneurship and its components which can be the basis of comparison of universities and can also be as a criterion for decision-making and selection of strategic of future universities.
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_||_This research is done to present the academic entrepreneurship evaluation model . The Descriptive research method is operational and through medley manner. Data of qualitative part were collected according to the documentary approach and a semi-structured interview with 20 professionals. These people have been chosen through purposive sampling style to theoretically saturate the information. The details were analyzed, coded in MAXQDA and based on the preliminary indicates which were identified, the form with 5 dimensions,32 components and 66 indicators was designed. In the quantitative part, a total of 148 people were sampled by simple random sampling among faculty members in the Azad University. The data of this part were validated by the method of structural equations based on partial least squares using the smart-PLS. According to the figures, evaluation of university entrepreneurship (with structural validity of 0.90) includes five components of evaluation of academic entrepreneurship stimuli (12 indicators,0.68), enables (10 indicators,0.83), third flow activities (28 indicates,0.93), effects internal (6 indicators,0.81) and external influences (10 indictors,0.88) that each of the components explains with 22,21,26,24 and 23% changes in the structure of academic entrepreneurship evaluation, respectively. The value of the SRMR fit index of the saturation model is 0.085. This model with presenting the view of actors and university entrepreneurship components and their key indicators creates an optimal understanding of measuring the academic entrepreneurship and its components which can be the basis of comparison of universities and can also be as a criterion for decision-making and selection of strategic of future universities.