Factors affecting in university incubators infrastructure and their role in the entrepreneurial universities spin-offs establishment

The study focuses on identifying the university incubators existing infrastructure and their role in the university spin-offs establishment. The study adopts an integrated approach as its methodology. The statistical population includes all universities and colleges managers، experts in universities’ incubators in Mazandaran Province. To perform the sampling، the purposive sampling and stratified random sampling were used for qualitative and quantitative parts، respectively. 13 subjects were interviewed for the qualitative phase and 170 subjects out of 304 participated in the quantitative part using stratified random sampling. The data gathering tools were interviews and a researcher-made questionnaire after confirming the validity and the reliability with Chronbach’s Alpha coefficient which was equal to 0/82 To analyze the data، the descriptive and inferential statistics that exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were applied. Based on the analysis of qualitative data from in-depth and exploratory interviews and interviews content analysis coding while matching the consistencies، the results of the qualitative study showed that 17 components were identified in the infrastructure aspect in the establishment of university spin-offs. Considering the quantitative aspect، the findings also emphasized that the existing organizational policy with the highest factorial load (0/97) and investment attraction with the lowest factorial load (0/59) explained the variances and other components had their prioritized relative contribution. Also، the final research model was approved considering the fit indexes and standard coefficients. Considering the impact factor of the existing components of the university incubators infrastructure in the establishment of university spin-offs، the greatest influencing amount was attributed to the organizational policy with 0/97 and lowest was given to investment attraction with 0/59.