Investigating the Rate of Highly Educated Managers’ Entrepreneurship in the Manufacturing Units of the Industrial Complexes of East Azarbaijan Province

Subject Areas : Business Management

Mansoor Sadigh ¹ , Hossein Aliye ² , Davood Baghery ³ , Alireza Bafandeh Zendeh ⁴ , Jabriel Marzi Alamdari ⁵

1 - Academic Member (Manager), Department of Management, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
2 - Master of Industrial Management, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
3 - Master of Industrial Management, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
4 - Faculty Member (Assistant Professor) Department of Management, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran
5 - Faculty Member (Assistant Professor) Jolfa Unit, Islamic Azad University, Jolfa, Iran

Received: 2011-05-25 Accepted : 2012-08-10 Published : 2012-11-21

Keywords: entrepreneurship, Competitiveness, Risk-taking, success-seeking, Internal control center, Ambition,

Abstract :

The economic structure of today’s world is different from that of the past. Hardware indices and tangible assets that had a key determining role as an enterprise in the past are now being replaced with innovation, creation of new products and software assets. Creating knowledge, making use of knowledge and expanding it all over the society in all fields create capability and power. Universities and research centers, as the basic foundation in the comprehensive development of the country, should be able to train the young and knowledge seeking individuals to become thoughtful, insightful, innovative, and creative. The greatest capitals of an enterprise in today’s world are those interested in thinking, learning and creating; and these are the entrepreneurs. The present study tries to survey and evaluate the average scores of entrepreneurship and the five dimensions affecting it among the industrial managers of East Azarbaijan industrial complexes. The statistical population includes 335 people from among the highly educated managers of the industrial complexes of East Azarbaijan. The study aims, by pinpointing the weak and strong points of the different dimensions of entrepreneurship, to give some suggestions in order to focus on and improve the weak points of entrepreneurship in universities and higher education centers.  

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