Designing a Tertiary education system based on knowledge-based economy ( Islamic Azad University casestudy)

Subject Areas : Human Resources Excellence

hosein karimi ¹ , Mojgan Abdollahi ² , fatemeh parasteh ³ , Ramezan Jahanian ⁴

1 - Ph.D. student of Educational Management, Department of Educational Sciences, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran.
4 - Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran.

Received: 2023-05-01 Accepted : 2023-06-17 Published : 2023-06-22

Keywords: driving factors, Knowledge-based economy, Tertiary education, , innovation and value creation,

Abstract :

Education is a means of improving human resources.The present study was conducted with the aim of designing a model of the university education system based on knowledge-based economy.This research is applied in terms of purpose and in terms of descriptive-correlation method and in terms of data collection it is mixed Done.The statistical population included all the professors, managers and research students of Azad University's knowledge-based field. In the qualitative part, interviews were conducted with selected experts of targeted research and samples until theoretical saturation, in the number of 15 people.The tool used to collect qualitative data was a semi-structured interview,which was analyzed by theme analysis using Nvivo software.In the quantitative part, 370 people were selected from the mentioned society as a sample of stratified sampling.The data collection tool was a questionnaire and extracted from qualitative results with appropriate validity and reliability.The designed model was tested in the form of structural equations with the PLS software.Academic education based on knowledge-based economy was approved with 4 main themes and 19 sub-themes.The main themes include background factors, driving factors; It is the moderating factors and the results and consequences.the barriers have a moderating role in the influence of driving factors on human capital.The results showed that the model has a good fit and includes educational and research, economic and…managerial consequences.The perspective of the knowledge-based economy is one of the structural and supra-organizational background factors, and by reducing the harmful factors on the driving factors, especially human capital, the desired results can be achieved