Abstract
Problem statement: An understanding of factors influencing entreprene urial education in Iran's applied-scientific educational centers for a griculture is crucial for creating the new opportun ities for students and encouraging them to involve in ent repreneurial activity. The purpose of this study wa s twofold. First, it determined the key factors that influence entrepreneurial education in Iran's appli ed- scientific educational centers for agriculture. Sec ond, the study examined relationship of these facto rs with developing entrepreneurial education. Approach: The research in terms of nature is a kind of quantitative research and in terms of goal is appli ed research, in terms of controlling the variables is descriptive and correlation kind, which has been ca rried out in a survey way. Statistical population o f the study consisted of 19255 students for applied-scien tific education in agriculture in Iran. Based on th e classification of the Ministry of Agriculture which has divided these centers into five regions, sampl e taking has been conducted using stratified proporti onate random sampling technique. Sample size for the students is 355 people using Cochran formula. Considering the entire size of the sample, some 291 questionnaires have been returned. Results: The results of the ordinal factor analysis showed the classification of the factors into five latent vari ables. The variables were classified into manageria l, economical, social, technical and regulatory. The b asic idea of factor analysis was to found a set of latent variables that contain the same information. The cl assic factor analysis assumed that, both observed a nd the latent variables were continuous variables. But , in practice, the observed variables were often or dinal. Spearman coefficient showed that there was relation ship between economical, social, technical, regulatory and managerial factors and perception of students about entrepreneurial education. Conclusion: Entrepreneurial education had a tremendous potenti al to help in the employment status of students in Iran's applied-scientific educational c enters for agriculture. These centers had the oppor tunity to play a major role in the development of entrepre neurial education. The development of entrepreneuri al education results in creating more jobs and employment sustainability could be achieved over time. Therefore, certain special factors in developing en trepreneurial education among students in these cen ters should be identified and need to be carefully exami ned. Innovative strategies need to be developed tha t cater specifically the entrepreneurship educational needs of students. Applied-scientific educational centers for agriculture in Iran need to provide pra ctical training in entrepreneurship to their studen ts, to make them more aware of the benefits of entrepreneurship and to address the factors that impact on developing entrepreneurial education in the centers .
Highlights
Private sector to employ the graduates due to traditional structure of production and livelihood exploiting system, With regard to population growth during 1979-1989 Iran has faced an intensive crisis of unemployment for and that wave reaching to the first decade of 21st agricultural graduates in 2000s
At present based on century, lack of progress in agricultural economy, available authorized statistics it is estimated that there immethodical expansion of agricultural higher education, are 42,500 unemployed agricultural graduates
The findings about economical factors are in accordance with those of (Mirzaee, 2002; Volery and Muller, 2006) which show that allocating the necessary budgets and securing the cost of practical training would have affect on the entrepreneurial education
Summary
Private sector to employ the graduates due to traditional structure of production and livelihood exploiting system, With regard to population growth during 1979-1989 Iran has faced an intensive crisis of unemployment for and that wave reaching to the first decade of 21st agricultural graduates in 2000s. Proposing new ideas based on the role of entrepreneurship in increasing job opportunities, competitiveness, improvement in manpower productivity, technology development, wealth generating and social welfare level and existence of strong relation between entrepreneurial development and economic growth of the countries have all resulted in a serious consideration of entrepreneurship in new economic theories and have been regarded as a provocative engine in economicalsocial growth and development of countries (Audretsch, 2002; Zoltan, 2006) This issue which has been noticed in agricultural economy and development of entrepreneurship is one of the necessities of agricultural development (Smit, 2004). Such situation has brought about an increasing demand in agricultural entrepreneurship education in recent years and has been emphasized by researchers and government authorities in different countries (McElwee, 2005)
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