Identifying the components of academic education based on knowledge-based economics and providing a suitable model

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hosein karimi ¹ , Mozhgan Abdolahi ² , Fatemeh Parasteh ³ , ramezan jahanian ⁴

1 - PhD student in Educational Management, Azad University of Karaj
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Psychology, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran.
4 - Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Karaj Branch, Karaj, Iran

Received: 2023-02-20 Accepted : 2023-03-13 Published : 2023-04-30

Keywords: Sustainable Development, tertiary education, innovation and value creation, commercialization of knowledge, knowledge-based economy,

Abstract :

Education is the main basis for creating economic power in the knowledge-based economy. Meeting educational needs requires pursuing multiple forms of knowledge acquisition. Economics helps to predict the manpower needed by different social sectors, and education is effective in the quality of the population and their acquisition abilities. According to the type and quality of the content of education and research and its amount, it is effective in the speed of transforming the resource-oriented economy into an efficiency-oriented economy and finally into a knowledge-based economy as well as economic growth. The current research was conducted in terms of practical purpose, in terms of descriptive method and in terms of data collection. In this regard, the background of academic education and knowledge-based economy was investigated in an analytical way, and in the field part, a purposeful sampling method was used through a semi-structured interview of 15 experts, including professors and research managers of Azad of Tehran and Alborz, the collected data were analyzed by theme analysis method with Nvivo software after identifying and extracting at least ten main and effective components as contextual and driving factors, each with five components in three general categories. background factors; Driving factors and outputs and consequences of tertiary education based on knowledge-based economics were classified and finally quantitative method with smart.pls software was used in order to validate the research model made by the researcher, the prospects of knowledge-based economy have an effect of 0.677 on underlying factors. Background factors have an effect of 0.518 on driving factors. Driving factors have an impact on human capital by 0.551. Human capital has an effect of 0.336 on results and consequences. The results and consequences have an effect of 0.328 on the ideal goal (strengthening sustainable development). Also, obstacles and injuries have a moderating role of 0.346.