[en] Graduate recruitment is one of the issues that have always been of interest to educational planners in different countries and the educational system of countries is no exception. Today, developed and developing countries have offered entrepreneurship courses to overcome the challenges of job search. In other words, the solution to these problems should be sought in entrepreneurship skills. The main aim of this research is to examine the role of entrepreneurial universities in the development of entrepreneurship in society, which will eventually lead to sustainable development. This study follows a quantitative methodology by using a self-administered questionnaire. This research’s statistical population consists of postgraduate and undergraduate students who have finished at least two academic years of study. The KMO coefficient and Bartlett’s test were used to establish the questionnaire’s content validity, while Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was used to check its reliability, revealing that the instruments were consistent at 91%. Descriptive and inferential statistics including frequency, mean, Kruskal test, Mann–Whitney test, Pearson correlation coefficient and regression were used to analyze the data. The findings of the correlation study showed that there is a significant relationship between university entrepreneurship factors and university-level awareness of entrepreneurial activities. Furthermore, the results of regression analysis showed that the dependent variable of the entrepreneurial awareness of students was dependent on variables such as the characteristics of the entrepreneurial university, parents’ income, personal awareness of students and communication channels.
Disciplines :
Agriculture & agronomy
Author, co-author :
Bahrami, Ziba; Rural Development Department, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
Ebrahimi, Mohammad Sadegh ; Rural Development Department, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran
Khedri, Gholamhossein; Department of Philosophy, Theology and Ethics, Payam Noor University (PNU), Tehran, Iran
Azadi, Hossein ; Université de Liège - ULiège > TERRA Research Centre > Modélisation et développement
Language :
English
Title :
The Role of Entrepreneurial Universities in Developing Students’ Awareness and Improving Post-Graduation Entrepreneurship Circumstances
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