Identifying the Barriers of Science and Technology Parks (STPs) in the Development of Agricultural Technology in Iran

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension

Homyoon  Dinarany ¹ (Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran)
Tahmasb  Maghsoudi ² (Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran)
Saeed  Mohammadzadeh ³ (Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Khuzestan, MollaSani, Iran)
Azadeh  Noorollah Noorivandi ⁴ (Department of Agricultural Extension and Education, Shoushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shoushtar, Iran)

Received: 2023-04-12 Accepted : 2023-05-28 Published : 2023-09-01

Keywords: Iran, barriers, Science and Technology Parks (STPs), Agricultural Technology,

Abstract :

The main purpose of the current research was to identify the barriers of science and technology parks (STPs) in the development of agricultural technology in Iran. The statistical population of this research were 824 managers of agricultural companies, and 180 people were selected as a sample using Cochran's formula and selected by stratified random sampling. The validity of the research tool was determined through a panel of experts and its reliability was determined through the calculation of Cronbach's alpha coefficient. This coefficient was higher than 0.7 for all sections. In order to measure the barriers of STPs in the development of agricultural technology, 26 items were proposed and evaluated based on manager's views. The obtained results show that seven factors explain 65.697 percent of the barriers of STPs in the development of agricultural technology. The first factor with eigenvalue of 8.671 and explained about 12.568% of the variance related to barriers, was named as "organizational barriers ". The next barriers were named as "economic and financial barriers", weakness in risk management", "Management barriers", "social and cultural barriers", "scientific barriers" and "attitudinal barriers", were named.

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