Identifying the Dimensions and Components of the Entrepreneurship Development Model in the Country's Higher Education System

Abstract

Purpose: The entrepreneurship development in the higher education system creates a competitive advantage for educational systems. Therefore, the current research was conducted with the aim of identifying the dimensions and components of the entrepreneurship development model in the country's higher education system. Method: In an applied study from type of qualitative from among the experts of the country's higher education system number of 14 people of them were selected as a sample according to the principle of theoretical saturation and based on the inclusion criteria with the purposive sampling method. The samples of the present research were subjected to a semi-structured interview, which whose validity was confirmed by the triangulation method and their reliability was calculated by the coefficient of agreement between two coding methods 0.84. Data were analyzed by thematic analysis method in MAXQDA software version 2020. Results: The findings indicated that the entrepreneurship development model in the country's higher education system has 73 components in 8 dimensions, including intrastructural strategic components (with 3 components), policy-making strategic components (with 3 components), centrality of the higher education system (with 4 components), cooperation of the higher education system (with 10 components), human force (with 11 components), adaptability (with 11 components), external organization (with 10 components) and internal organization (with 11 components). Finally, the entrepreneurship development model in the country's higher education system was drawn based on the output of MAXQDA software. Conclusion: According to the results of this study and based on the dimensions and components of the entrepreneurship development model in the country's higher education system, it is necessary to plan for the entrepreneurship development through the improvement of the identified dimensions and components in this research.