Identifying and Explaining the Dimensions of the Entrepreneurial University Affecting Students' Entrepreneurial Behaviour - A Case Study of Alborz Comprehensive University of Applied Sciences

Entrepreneurial behaviour is a motivation and action that enables the entrepreneur to create and take advantage of opportunities. An Entrepreneurial University improves students' entrepreneurial behaviour. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify and explain the dimensions of the entrepreneurial university affecting the entrepreneurial behaviour of students at the Alborz University of Applied Sciences. This research was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive survey in terms of data collection method. The research method was mixed-exploratory (quantitative-qualitative). For the qualitative part, 28 interviews were carried out with experts selected through snowball sampling method and for the quantitative part, 376 entrepreneurship professors were selected and studied by random sampling. The findings of the qualitative section were analysed through open and axial coding and led to the extraction of 224 primary codes, 29 components in 8 dimensions (including economic and social conditions, in-university context, university environment and value creation, institutionalization of entrepreneurship, structural changes, management optimization, acceptance of entrepreneurial mission and networking). After obtaining the dimensions of the research, a researcher-made questionnaire was designed inspired by related studies. Therefore, the data collection tool was a questionnaire. Data were analysed using SPSS and smartPLS3 software. Findings showed that all the dimensions had a significant effect on students' entrepreneurial behaviour.