1. An empirical investigation of entrepreneurship intensity in Iranian state universities.
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Mahdavi Mazdeh, Mohammad, Razavi, Seyed-Mostafa, Hesamamiri, Roozbeh, Zahedi, Mohammad-Reza, and Elahi, Behin
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HIGHER education , *ENTREPRENEURSHIP , *STATE universities & colleges , *BUSINESS incubators , *EDUCATION policy - Abstract
The purpose of this study is to propose a framework to evaluate the entrepreneurship intensity (EI) of Iranian state universities. In order to determine EI, a hybrid multi-method framework consisting of Delphi, Analytic Network Process (ANP), and VIKOR is proposed. The Delphi method is used to localize and reduce the number of criteria extracted from a deep literature review, according to the social and economic conditions of Iranian state universities by using an expert panel, including sixty-eight country-wide academicians and practitioners. After that, a group approach to ANP was utilized as an evaluation method to derive the weights of each criterion. Next, the evaluation data were gathered through a questionnaire, and, finally, the compromise ranking of universities was calculated using the VIKOR method. Moreover, this study applies weight-variance analysis (WVA) to suggest improvement actions. The paper proposes an evaluation framework for determining the performance of entrepreneurship development initiatives in universities. By using this framework, twenty-two Iranian state universities are evaluated in terms of their EI, and the results are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2013
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