Explanation of the Potential Capacity in Entrepreneurial University Development through a Study in Mazandaran University

Abstract

Nowadays, the role of Entrepreneurial University in a dynamic environment of Knowledge Economy, supporting the economic development, is derived by an increase in number and quality of (the basic and applied) researches, and the quick transfer of such new knowledge toward the society performs by education and entrepreneurship. The main purpose of the present research, therefore, was the exploration of the entrepreneurial potential capacity of Mazandaran University based on the eleventh components of entrepreneurial university. Statistical population of the present study included 256 professors and experts of the university among which the questionnaires distributed, and finally, 134 questionnaires were returned. In the present research, entrepreneurial capacity standard questionnaire was used, and in order to data analysis, the SPSS and LISREL soft wares were used. The derived results from structural equation modeling showed that the research model had a good fitness and its totality was supported (GFI=0.93, NFI=0.91, RMSEA=0.056). So, these findings showed that there were significant relationships between research variables and entrepreneurial capacity. It means that all variables were influential on the entrepreneurial capacity and explained it. The main finding of the research showed that entrepreneurial capacity and its eleventh components in Mazandaran University had the lower level of means than desirable measure, and placed in an undesirable level.

Keywords

• entrepreneurial university structural equation modeling academic entrepreneurship entrepreneurial capacity university of mazandaran