Young Entrepreneurs Congress

Biography

Biography: Salari Ehsan

Abstract

Given the importance of entrepreneurship in the development and prosperity of the country's economy, understanding ecosystem is of particular importance. Establishment and development of student entrepreneurship ecosystem as one of the most important factors in transforming students into future entrepreneurs, is currently in the spotlight of universities and higher education institutions. After reviewing the researches done on the topics of entrepreneurship ecosystem, limited researches in this field and specifically on the subject of student entrepreneurship ecosystem in Iran and other foreign countries have been done. On the other hand, most of the researches have been done. Has been in the field of supporting academic entrepreneurship and less comprehensive attention has been paid to the ecosystem required by entrepreneurship. However, this study seeks to identify the dimensions and components of the student entrepreneurship ecosystem and to present the student entrepreneurship ecosystem model at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad and has been done by content analysis method. The data collection tool was a semi-structured interview with 13 professors and entrepreneurial ecosystem experts who were selected by sequential sampling method. Dimensions and components of entrepreneurial ecosystem (74 sub-categories and 9 main dimensions) were identified from the interviews and developed in the form of a conceptual model of content analysis. Based on the findings of the study, the dimensions of the student entrepreneurship ecosystem in this study from the perspective of the interviewees are: support and support, education and learning, research and technology, events and communities, policy-making, cultural and social, laws and regulations, financial resources, institutions, networks and interactions.