Identifying and Prioritizing the Barriers of Academic Research Commercialization

The main topic of this research is identifying obstacles to the commercialization of knowledge and technology. The importance of this is because, with the emergence of knowledge based economy, higher education policies have undergone changes that led universities to attain a competitive advantage and increase resources that play a role in global markets. This can be achieved through the commercialization of research and technological achievements. The main objective of this research is to identify and rank barriers to the commercialization of knowledge and technology at the University of Isfahan. This research is descriptive-survey based on the nature of the application. The statistical population of the study was 141 faculty members of Isfahan University that are involved in commercialization projects. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was verified by 5 experts and the validity of the construct was verified by confirmatory factor analysis using Liserl software. The reliability of the questionnaire was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha of 0.89. The structural equation test was used to study the hypotheses of this research. The results at 95% confidence level indicated that structural, behavioral and environmental barriers to commercialization in the University of Isfahan had a reverse effect. Also, the Friedman test was used to rank the barriers that are structural - organizational barriers, behavioral - content, contextual - environmental, were ranked in order of preferences.