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        1 - The Rule of Academic Spin off Companies in the Development of Entrepreneurship at the Universities
        Atefeh Zolfaghari Seyed reza Hejazi Arta Farmodi
        This paper investigates the rule of spin off companies in the development of academic entrepreneurship at the University. Increasing attention to the entrepreneurship and highlighted the role of spin off companies in knowledge transfer and technology transfer have shown More
        This paper investigates the rule of spin off companies in the development of academic entrepreneurship at the University. Increasing attention to the entrepreneurship and highlighted the role of spin off companies in knowledge transfer and technology transfer have shown the increasingly importance of spin off companies in Iran. Considering to the formation and growth of spin off companies in the future industrial development and increased universities income especially in Iran would be a major subject for countries. This paper is a qualitative study that have shaped based on studied documents, database, technology transfer, spin off and entrepreneurship literatures. Based on the finding from depth interviews with universities experts and founders of academic spin offs this study has been integrated. Based on the collected data success of the spin off companies have strengthened the suitable formed of entrepreneurship team at universities and research institutions. Spin off company’s Entrepreneur founders with the good organizational conditions make growth and increased rate of income and employment which will increase attention to entrepreneurship in the universities. This paper has been reviewed the enormous changes in universities system to developing entrepreneurship culture and education in teaching and research activities in universities and has been investigated that attention to interact companies with industry through academic spin off is so vial. At the end if the interaction between the university environment and research organizations with industrial and economic business has been organized, and with effective mechanisms such as creation spin off, the resulting will be absorbing most employment and efficiency of sources. Manuscript profile
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        2 - Entrepreneurial University; Concepts, Backgrounds and How to Achieve
        Bahman Facoor
        Science systems in the world have been in transition for better responding to social and economic needs to knowledge and technology. Entrepreneurial university is a model for defining and describing a new and modified face for universities. The main impact of this model More
        Science systems in the world have been in transition for better responding to social and economic needs to knowledge and technology. Entrepreneurial university is a model for defining and describing a new and modified face for universities. The main impact of this model is to extend the interaction between university and society. This article is to review the entrepreneurial university concepts and the backgrounds, as well as to reveal the factors that contribute in transferring of traditional universities to entrepreneurial universities. Manuscript profile
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        3 - The Conceptual Model of University Incubators
        Tayebe Nikraftar
        Change and transition is one of the challenges of 21st century. Countries have faced with unanticipated situations because of developing the increasing range of changes so they can not guarantee their survival with small change in manner, structure, technology and so on More
        Change and transition is one of the challenges of 21st century. Countries have faced with unanticipated situations because of developing the increasing range of changes so they can not guarantee their survival with small change in manner, structure, technology and so on. Organizations should start a revolution in their managements and employees mind until the concepts of organization, work and competition basically change in their mind. In this situation we need entrepreneurs that can blow fresh blood in the economic state body through creativity, innovation, stability and self confidence and pacing effective step for solving employment crisis. It is obvious that entrepreneurial university is one of the strategic and key tools for this matter in the higher education level. Entrepreneurship University has made diversity mechanisms such as business incubators, science and technology parks, and entrepreneurship centers and so on for fulfilling their goals. The task of business incubators is to support the university graduates and young entrepreneurs that familiar with new technologies and owning creativity but they are often idle because founding a business by them is not possible without entering a high risk of failure. Business Incubators help these entrepreneurs to pass the primary growth stages and when they acquire the capabilities for activity in market they can leave/graduate the incubator. The concept of business incubator have been reviewed, analysis and habited in our country for some years. The object of this paper is to review the place of university incubators in developing employment and technology transfer. At first we pay attention to relations between the university, incubator and industry. Then we review the role of them in developing and transferring technology and finally we show a conceptual model for University Incubators. Manuscript profile
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        4 - Analysis of the Forces Operating in an Entrepreneurial University and Academic Technology Transfer; Interdisciplinary Approach
        Amin Pazhohesh Jahromy Javad Pour Karimy
        The formation of the entrepreneurial university from the traditional university,is the product of the interaction of the various forces that creativity and collective action is the common characteristics of it. When the University moved to a higher level of energy balan More
        The formation of the entrepreneurial university from the traditional university,is the product of the interaction of the various forces that creativity and collective action is the common characteristics of it. When the University moved to a higher level of energy balance, in other words, from the traditional to the entrepreneurial university level, balance of the forces to maintain the conditions is required so that university wouldn’t go back to the former situattion. After the formation of the entrepreneur university, similarly forces affect the process of technology transfer and commercialization of research findings As one of the most important topics of the third mission of the university. The present Research uses library research and with use of multidisciplinary perspective, analyzes the forces shaping the entrepreneurial university and technology transfer from the perspective of the dynamics, Social Change, linguistics, the physics of electricity, and psychology. The findings suggests that driving forces and restraining forces (The intensity of the applied research and becoming market university) due to circumstances may help to instability, Change, and finally, stability. Manuscript profile
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        5 - Discover and prioritize the factors affecting the structure of the entrepreneurial university: the Proposal for success in the university's third generation tasks
        mesbaholhoda baqeri KHALIL NOROUZI MAHDI MOHAMMADI JAVAD AZADI AHMADABADI
        With the passing of the era of the first and second generation of university that training-oriented universities and research-oriented universities are called, the third generation as an entrepreneurial university has been introduced. The aim of present article is Ident More
        With the passing of the era of the first and second generation of university that training-oriented universities and research-oriented universities are called, the third generation as an entrepreneurial university has been introduced. The aim of present article is Identifying and ranking Entrepreneurial University's Structure Dimension. Entrepreneurial university appearance as a center which focus on humanity knowledge and publication of that, investigation, preparation and university attendance on development of economic and social with more operational system, can be known as one of the most important events in recent years. By attention to necessity of developing these kind of universities, must examine structure basis of that and Iran,s universities should be noticed to this kind of university. In this investigation, researchers after library considerations, proceed to recognition of effective structural dimensions on entrepreneurial university using Delphi method in three rounds. then they ranked this dimensions by using AHP. After recognizing dimensions by using Delphi method they ordered by using networking process: integration, independence, professionalism, complexity, centralization and formality. The result of present article shows that scientific system of country should notice to a lot of structural dimension's in the universities especially in independence and integration and professionalism. Because Entrepreneurial University's Structure should persuade creativity and synergy. The leading role, combination of the components of the composition and independence, is the one of the most influential factors that affecting on the structure. Manuscript profile
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        6 - Investigating the Factors Effecting the Readiness of Universities to Become the University with the Entrepreneurial Features (Case Study: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad)
        fereshte sadeghi yaghoob maharati alireza khorakian
        Today the successful experience of most developed countries as well as some developing countries in overcoming economic crises through the development of entrepreneurship in those countries has made other countries to pay more attention to entrepreneurship, entrepreneur More
        Today the successful experience of most developed countries as well as some developing countries in overcoming economic crises through the development of entrepreneurship in those countries has made other countries to pay more attention to entrepreneurship, entrepreneurs and the formation of innovative businesses. This affects the field of education more than anything else, which has led gradually to change universities towards entrepreneurship. Hence present study is aimed to investigate the factors effecting the readiness of Universities to become the University with the entrepreneurial features in Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. According to Morgan table, 114 sample were randomly selected. Face validity were examined with point of view of a number of professors in the Department of Management of Ferdowsi University and construct validity were examined through factor analysis and Cronbach' s alpha coefficient was used to measure reliability. Data analysis was performed using structural equation modeling analysis and Lisrel software. the results showed that all factors examined in this study i.e. structure, culture, strategy, management and academic links with industry are determinant factors effecting on the readiness of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad to become the University with the entrepreneurial Features But culture and academic links with industry are not very determinant factors. In addition, it was shown that among the investigated factors, organizational structure is the most determinant factor effecting the readiness of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad to become the University with the entre preneurial Features. Manuscript profile
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        7 - Solutions for the Development of Entrepreneurial University in the Field of Humanities and Social Sciences Based on a Multiple Case Study
        mehdi goodarzi farzaneh khalouei
        One of the issues encountered by the Iranian Humanities and Social Sciences Society is the commercialization of knowledge and business creation in this field. As a result, the deprivation of business areas from the benefits and capacities of the humanities and social sc More
        One of the issues encountered by the Iranian Humanities and Social Sciences Society is the commercialization of knowledge and business creation in this field. As a result, the deprivation of business areas from the benefits and capacities of the humanities and social sciences, the wasting of the country's capital, the unemployment of a large number of graduates, immigration and employment in irrelevant businesses are the main consequences of this issue. Therefore, this paper attempts by reviewing the literature on entrepreneurship, the supporting ecosystem of entrepreneurship and the study of two domestic and international universities, provide some solutions for developing university entrepreneurship in the field of humanities and social sciences. The results show that in comprehensive universities, firstly, engineering faculties and then social sciences, economics and management schools engage in entrepreneurship. However, other colleges are resisting entrepreneurship. Therefore, at a humanities university, the stimulation of all faculties for entrepreneurship innovatively, along with the pursuit of scientific and research tasks, should be carefully addressed and start with the colleges whose products and services are closer to the market. In addition, there is no universal framework for creating an academic entrepreneurship ecosystem. Thus, the officials of the universities in the field of humanities must be able to create a environment in which, while preserving the traditional values of education and research, put the commercialization capacity of creating entrepreneurial culture in the university at the center of attention of students and staff. Manuscript profile
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        8 - Investigating the Determinant of Organization Structure Dimensions on the Readiness of Universities to become the University with the Entrepreneurial Features (Case Studi: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad)
        fereshte sadeghi yaghoob maharati alireza khorakian
        Today, government agencies, including universities, are confronted with problems for entrepreneurship. But these organizations have a special potential for entrepreneurship that can be achieved by providing the necessary fields for optimal results in this field. To prov More
        Today, government agencies, including universities, are confronted with problems for entrepreneurship. But these organizations have a special potential for entrepreneurship that can be achieved by providing the necessary fields for optimal results in this field. To provide these areas, fundamental changes in the structure of these organizations are necessary. Therefore, the present research aims to investigate the determinant of organization structure dimensions on readiness of Universities to become the University with the entrepreneurial Features. In the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad. According to Morgan table, 114 sample were randomly selected. Validity was examined with point of view of a number of professors in the Department of Management of Ferdowsi University through factor analysis and Cronbach' s alpha coefficient was used to measure reliability. Data analysis was performed using SPSS software. The results showed that In terms of managers all dimension of organization structure are determinant factors effecting on the readiness of the Ferdowsi University of Mashhad to become the University with the entrepreneurial Features. In addition, it was shown that among the dimensions of organizational structure, Formalism is the highest determinant factor effecting on the readiness of Ferdowsi University to become the University with the entre preneurial Features. Manuscript profile
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        9 - Entrepreneurial University; Higher Education Sustainable and Consistent, Leverage on the Path to Sustainable Development
        HOSSEIN Samadi-Miarkolaei hamzeh Samadi-Miarkolaei
        Nowadays, the sustainable development has become an ideal and great challenge. The universities are obligated to realize this ideal in higher education, and undoubtedly, the role of universities in sustainable development is undeniable. In the meantime, the appearance o More
        Nowadays, the sustainable development has become an ideal and great challenge. The universities are obligated to realize this ideal in higher education, and undoubtedly, the role of universities in sustainable development is undeniable. In the meantime, the appearance of entrepreneurial university is a response to increasingly importance of knowledge in the national and regional innovation system and new understanding of university; i.e. the institution which is counted as a factor for development, knowledge and technology transfer, and the source of creative inventions, and is good and thrifty economically. Therefore, present research is conducted to explain and investigate the entrepreneurial university model toward achievement of sustainable development in Mazandaran universities. This research, in terms of purpose, is an applied research, and in terms of data gathering, is a descriptive research. First, by means of literature review and interview with experts, the primiarly questionnaire is designed and the principal indices of entrepreneurial university model are extracted. Then, the FDEMATEL is used to explore the causal relations between variables, and finally, the (FDISM) is used to design the structural model. Results showed, among explored indices, five variables play a causal role and five variables play an effectual role. Results of fuzzy weighting technique showed, among explored indices, the indices of vision, mission, and strategy in university possess the most weight and importance. Also, FDISM approach showed the variables have been categorized into seven levels, and the variables of vision, mission, and strategy in university, leadership in university, and organizational structure and design in university are more influential as infrastructural factors. Manuscript profile