Factor Analysis of the Effective Factors on Extension and Development of Agricultural Biotechnology Commercialization from Researchers of Research Centers Perspective

Subject Areas : Agricultural Extension and Education Research

Vahideh Birjandi ¹ , S. mahmoud Hosseini ² , Mohammad Chizari ³ , Iraj Malek Mohammadi ⁴

1 - Graduated Student (Ph.D.) of Agricultural Extension & Education, Science & Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Professor of Agricultural Extension & Education, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran
3 - Professor of Agricultural Extension & Education, University of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran
4 - Professor of Agricultural Extension & Education, Science & Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2018-11-13 Accepted : 2018-11-13 Published : 2018-10-23

Keywords: Extension &amp, Development of Com, Exploratory Factor Analysis, Agricultural Biotechnology, Iran,

Abstract :

Agricultural biotechnology has an important role in food security, biodiversity protection, decreasing of Agriculture's environmental effects, decreasing of changing climate's effects, eliminating of poverty and hunger. Although, research institutes must commercialize their new biotechnology's research findings via collaborating with industry, and convert to profitable products for markets, most of them just publishing in scientific journals and aren’t usable for consumers. So, the major purpose of this study was to identify and sort the effective factors on extension and development of agricultural biotechnology commercialization from researchers of research centers perspective. The sample size for the study was 170 biotechnology researchers engaged in governmental agricultural research institutions of Iran and data collected by using a questionnaire. The results of exploratory factor analysis in SPSSWin16 were shown that 53.42% of the variance in the extension and development of agricultural biotechnology commercialization could be explained by five factors including infrastructure, policy, economic, extension-information, and education-human resources

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