Investigating the approaches for development of student’s entrepreneurial capabilities in agricultural scientific-applied courses (Case study: Imam Khomeini Higher Education Center (ihec))

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Imam Khomeini Higher Education Center, Jihad-e-Keshavarzi Ministry, Iran

2 Ph.D. Candidate, Agricultural Extension and Education Department, Agricultural Economics and Development Faculty, Uinversity of Tehran, Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Entrepreneurship Faculty, University of Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Reengineering the governmental construction in developing countries for enhancement of government organization power and enhancement of non-government section role in agricultural development causes advent new capacities of entrepreneurship human resources and prudence their position in managing and these evolution. The agricultural higher education system in order to preserve responsible in training these sources should launch by increasing educational planning quality toward training entrepreneur person. By attention to the problems and challenges of higher education system of applied scientific in education in this resources, recognizing the approaches of developing the student’s entrepreneurial capabilities is necessary. This issue was approved by statistics of graduate’s entrepreneurship in this higher education centers. Therefore, preserving the efficiency of this system is essential to know developing solution of student entrepreneurial abilities and planning to perform them. The main problem was lack of the related information in the greatest agricultural education center (Imam Khomeini higher education center). With regards the purpose of research, it has been done by survey method. The statistical population was 1595 of agricultural students studying in this center in 2012. The sample population was determined 195 people by the Cochran formula. The measurement instrument was questionnaire. The validity and reliability of questionnaire were confirmed. The results showed that average score the affects methods of entrepreneurial abilities development are more than the middle (3.53 of 5). In addition, the main factors of “give consulting services” and “planning for reform entrepreneurship skills” determine and explain the 20.48 and 19.48 percent of changing variance. At the end, results proposed creating professional business consulting corridor in agricultural applied- scientific higher education centers and planning the comprehensive plans for improvement student’s abilities about business and entrepreneurship via combining entrepreneurship topics in technical and specialized agricultural courses.

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