Modeling the growth of students' entrepreneurship in the higher education system.

The purpose of this study is to model the growth of students' entrepreneurship in the higher education system. The research method is combined and the research design is exploratory (qualitative-quantitative). The statistical population in the qualitative section of managers, deputies and higher education specialists with entrepreneurial expertise and in the quantitative section, students of Tehran Azad University in the summer of 1399, 19182 people, in the qualitative section using snowball method to achieve theoretical saturation with Fifteen experts were interviewed in depth and in a quantitative part, to measure the model, a researcher-made questionnaire with relative class sampling method was distributed among 384 samples. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by face and content method and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha method. Qualitative data were analyzed by content analysis method with MAXqda software and quantitative data were analyzed by structural equation modeling and exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis with SPSS and LISREL software. The results of the qualitative section indicate that the entrepreneurial growth model of students in the higher education system has three dimensions and not nine dimensions in terms of entrepreneurial growth competencies (entrepreneurial attitude, entrepreneurial knowledge, entrepreneurial skills), entrepreneurial growth methods (presentation methods). Direct, interactive methods, applied-operational methods) and entrepreneurial growth mechanisms (entrepreneurship in real environment, entrepreneurship in virtual environment, entrepreneurship in university environment). The results of the quantitative section showed that all dimensions and components of the research formulation model were approved.