Investigating the Effect of Knowledge Management on the Development of Entrepreneurship of Graduates

Today, the discussion of employment and entrepreneurship is one of the most important issues of concern to all governments around the world, because the lack of employment in the population of a country leads to many personal and collective problems; These problems may be more for the educated class who have continued their education in the hope of getting a suitable job. In addition, organizations attach special importance to entrepreneurship in order to align with the changing needs of customers and the current complex environment, and consider it a factor of sustainability in the field of competition, and one of the ways to achieve this goal is to create conditions Entrepreneurship is for graduates.

Therefore, the present research was conducted with the aim of investigating the impact of knowledge management dimensions on the development of entrepreneurship of graduates. The statistical population of this research included all graduates of Islamic Azad University in Tehran. The research data collection tools were Nonaka's knowledge management questionnaires (1995) and Antonik and Hiserich's (2003) entrepreneurship development questionnaires, whose formal and content validity was approved by experts and reliability was calculated using Cronbach's alpha test greater than 0.7. In order to analyze the research data, SPSS21 software and multiple regression test were used.

the results indicated that the dimensions of knowledge management (knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, knowledge storage, and knowledge application) have a positive relationship with the development of entrepreneurship among graduates. And they have meaning.

The results of multiple regression also showed that the variables of knowledge creation, knowledge application, and knowledge sharing and knowledge storage can be introduced as predictive variables for the entrepreneurship of graduates.