Evaluating and Ranking Entrepreneurial University Factors: Case of Isfahan Province Universities

The aim of this study is to evaluate and rank entrepreneurial university factors in Isfahan province. This study is an applied research, and mixed method (qualitative-quantitative) is used for data collection. To determine influencing factors, the population of study includes managers of incubators and entrepreneurship centers, research administrators and faculties with experiences in entrepreneurship and the selected sample of 15 is done by judgmental sampling method. The ranking has been done between great public and Azad universities of Isfahan province. At the first step, the list of factors including financial resources, human resources, structure, tangibles and intangible factors and their sub-criteria was provided using the related literature and Delphi method. The weight and the importance of factors are obtained by Analytic Network Process, and VIKOR method also is used to rank the selected universities. Among the affecting factors of entrepreneurial university, the most important is human resources. Among public universities, Isfahan University of Technology and among Azad universities, the Islamic Azad University of Najafabad and Khorasgan have the first place in terms of total factors.