The Impact of Structure of Industrial Clusters on Entrepreneurship in Enterprises of Clusters Case Study: Isfahan's Precious Metals and Gemstones Cluster

The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of industrial structure of clusters on entrepreneurship in business clusters (case study: valuable metals and precious stones of Isfahan's clusters). The relevant population is Isfahan clusters of valuable metals and precious stones. Number of population is over than 300enterprises. According to the formula of sampling structural equation modeling and according to the number of questions in questionnaire, sample size assigned 160 and random sampling method was used for sampling and questionnaires were distributed among the population and 145 questionnaires were returned and analyzed. The Tool of collecting data was questionnaire that was compiled by the researcher content validity; construct validity and reliability were confirmed. Results show that structure of clusters has appositive effect on entrepreneurship in cluster and entrepreneurship in cluster has appositive effect on increase of innovation, knowledge transfer and decrease of Operational and investment costs.