Presentation of a Framework for Effective Environmental Contexts in Establishing Knowledge-Based Training Companies (Case Study: Islamic Azad University Gilan Province)

Universities have a central role and primarily responsible for the development of specialized human resources in the society. Without changing the attitude of students and graduates from job seeker to entrepreneur, the university can pave the way for applying and exploiting the capabilities created by graduates through the creation of knowledge-based companies. This research was applied in terms of purpose and in terms of data gathering was a qualitative and quantitative study. Data were collected by interview and questionnaire. First, interviews were conducted with 13 academic experts in the field of knowledge-based companies by purposeful sampling method. Environmental fields were extracted using interview analysis. In the quantitative part, a researcher-made questionnaire was used. Using stratified random sampling method, 267 persons were distributed among the units and status analysis was performed by confirmatory factor analysis and one sample t-test. The results showed that the highest impact factor was related to proper business planning for product idea conversion by government 17.09, although the lowest impact factor was related to social factors with 7.84. Moreover, the research model was confirmed by fitting indices and standard coefficients.