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Knowledge and innovation are essential for organizational success. For this reason, organizations are seeking for processes to transform knowledge into better organizational performance. On the other hand, it seems that the relationship between the knowledge management process and performance is more complex than a simple direct relationship, because knowledge must be institutionalized in the organization to improve performance. This institutionalization may be achieved through organizational innovation, which can often facilitate these processes. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between knowledge management processes, organizational innovation and organizational performance, which has been done in the case of the cement industry. For this purpose, three standard questionnaires of knowledge management (Cronbach's alpha= 0.730), organizational performance (Cronbach's alpha = 0.714) and organizational innovation (Cronbach's alpha = 0.750) were used to collect information from a sample of 385 cement industry employees from six provinces. Data analysis was done using SPSSwin18 and Smart PLS.5 software in the form of descriptive statistics and structural equation model. The results showed the low level of knowledge management and organizational innovation in the studied companies. The findings of the structural equation model showed that knowledge management (β=0.417, P<0.01) and organizational innovation(β=0.427, P<0.01) have a positive and significant effect on organizational performance. In addition, organizational innovation plays a mediating role in the relationship between knowledge management and organizational performance(β=0.331, P<0.01). It is suggested that organizations that have a high ability to manage their knowledge use their resources efficiently and provide more innovation to improve their performance.

The present study examines the innovative behavior of students of agricultural schools in Sari city in Mazandaran province. This is a descriptive-survey study. The statistical population was composed of 433 students, out of which 206 students were selected on the basis of Krejcie and Morgan table. The research tool was a researcher-made questionnaire in which innovative behavior was measured by 32 items in the form of three dimensions of idea discovery, idea creation and idea support. Descriptive and inferential statistical methods were used in SPSS21. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between different dimensions of innovative behavior at the level of 99% confidence. Findings indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between innovative behavior and students' semester. Comparison of innovative behavior of students in different groups showed that innovative behavior in the groups of gender, level of education, having a job, having a history of innovation and entrepreneurship, as well as different fields of study, had a significant difference. According to the results, it is suggested that educational centers, including institutions and centers of higher education, by providing educational facilities and infrastructure to provide the ground for the production of ideas to pave the way for the development and strengthening of entrepreneurial culture. It is suggested that educational centers, including institutions and higher education centers, by providing educational facilities and infrastructure, supply the ground for creating and developing ideas for students, in order to strengthen and expand the entrepreneurial culture.

The main objective of this study was to examine the relationship of emotional intelligence and organizational commitment with agriculture experts’ creativity and innovative behavior. The statistical population included all experts in Agriculture Jihad Organization of Hamedan Province (N=400). Totally 187 agriculture experts were selected as sample using proportional stratified sampling method. Data were collected through a questionnaire. The content and face validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts and its reliability was confirmed and evaluating measurement model and using Cronbach’s alpha. The results of structural equation modelling indicated that emotional intelligence and organizational commitment were directly and positively related to experts’ creativity and innovative behavior. The mediation analysis revealed that emotional intelligence was also indirectly related to experts’ creativity and innovative behavior through organizational commitment. In sum, the research model was able to explain about 36% and 30% of the variance in employees’ creativity and innovative behavior, respectively. Totally, the results of this research showed that attention to experts’ emotional intelligence and organizational commitment can influence their creativity and innovative behavior, and therefore their improvement should be considered by managers.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the "Innovation and Entrepreneurship Workshop" textbook in terms of attention to the components of entrepreneurship. The research method was content analysis. The study population included, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Workshop textbooks eleventh grade Secondary secondary school in school year 2020 Considering the nature and logic of the research, the entire text of the book was examined as an example. Measurement tool, self-made content analysis checklist Consisting of 13 Index was, the validity of the use of professional judgment (validity and content) determined using retest reliability 0.89 respectively. results using descriptive statistics were used in the process of Shannon entropy analysis. Based on research, "Innovation and Entrepreneurship Workshop", textbooks eleventh grade Secondary secondary school 270 times concepts of entrepreneurship, focused The index distribution of its importance. In this book, the component of "creativity and innovation" with 90 frequencies (37%) has received more attention and the component of "responsibility" with 5 frequencies (2%) has received the least attention. In terms of coefficient of importance index, the component of "success" with a coefficient of importance of 0.138 had the highest coefficient of importance and the component of "risk-taking" with a coefficient of significance of 0.027, had the lowest coefficient of importance.

Today, due to the problem of unemployment, students should not only be familiar with entrepreneurship, but also with the acquisition of knowledge, their attitude towards education should be strengthened towards the behavior of entrepreneurs. In this regard, the present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between students' academic motivation and their entrepreneurial abilities. The research method was descriptive-applied and was conducted as a questionnaire. The face validity and reliability of the questionnaire were confirmed using experts' views and Cronbach's alpha test, respectively. The statistical population of this study consisted of humanities students in Islamic Azad universities of Golestan and North Khorasan provinces (N= 3095) that using Krejcie-Morgan table, 350 people were studied as a sample size. The results showed that undergraduate students have more academic motivation than other graduates and graduate students have more entrepreneurial abilities than other students. Also, among the five dimensions of entrepreneurial capabilities, students scored higher in the "determination" dimension. The present study showed that there is a positive and significant correlation between academic motivation and entrepreneurial capabilities, which indicates the greater success of students with higher academic motivation in improving entrepreneurial capabilities. Promoting academic motivation among students and aligning curricula with entrepreneurial capabilities are some of the suggestions of this research.

The purpose of research was to identify the role of agricultural cooperatives for promotion of entrepreneurial spirit farmers of Mahabad township. This study was descriptive-correlation research and used survey method. The statistical population of the study consisted of all the 230 farmers participating in agricultural cooperatives in the Mahabad township. Using Krejcie and Morgan’s table and proportional stratified random sampling technique, 111 farmers were selected as research sample. Interview and questionnaire was the main tool for data gathering. Finally, 111 questionnaires were completed and used for data analyzing. The instrument for collecting data was a questionnaire which its validity was confirmed by a panel of experts. The reliability of the questionnaire in the pre-test phase was confirmed (α= 0.85 to 90). The data were analyzed using SPSS software. The results of one-sample t-test showed that the components of entrepreneurial spirit including risk taking, life control, creativity, independence and self-confidence were significant at 99% level. This reflects the impact of the agricultural cooperatives under study in fostering entrepreneurial spirit. Also, the results of the correlations showed that highly educated farmers consider the role and status of cooperatives in entrepreneurial activities. Correlation t-test showed that there was a significant difference between the mean score of the two components of the present and desirable status. The correlation showed that higher educated farmers find cooperatives more effective in entrepreneurship. Also, the results of data processing showed that there was no significant relationship between the role and position of cooperative in entrepreneurial activities and membership history. The results of paired T test showed that there is a significant difference between the two situation.

The main purpose of this descriptive-correlative study was to investigate the relationships between individual entrepreneurial orientation, individual learning, creativity with job performance. The mediating roles of individual learning and entrepreneurial orientation were analyzed. The statistical population of this research consisted of 635 agricultural experts of organization of Jihad-e Agriculture in Hamedan Province (N=365). According to Cochran's formula, a sample of 242 experts was chosen through random stratified sampling method. Data was collected using four standardized self-administered scales including individual learning scale (Sujan et al., 1994)), creativity scale (Tierney et al., 1999), individual entrepreneurial orientation scale (Bolton & Lane, 2012) and individual performance scale (Staples et al., 1999). The validity and reliability of the questionnaire were investigated using confirmatory factor analysis and Cronbach’s alpha coefficient respectively (.83≥α≥.76). Structural equation modeling and bootstrap procedure were used to analyze the data. Results indicated that individual learning was significantly related to job performance and it mediated the entrepreneurial orientation-job performance relationship. In addition, creativity was significantly related to entrepreneurial orientation and job performance. Drawing on the findings, the managers and leaders of the organization can focus on the individual learning mechanism and creativity to improve employees’ entrepreneurial orientation and thereby fostering their job performance.

The aim of this paper was to study entrepreneurial organization's concept and dimensions. Change is one of the main features of the contemporary world and managers in order to achieve organizational goals are forced to pay attention to this issue. If we want to achieved to organizational goals (Including the survival and profitability), we need to deal with dynamics and change to do a good reaction. The entrepreneurial organization is one of the new organization faces that have been proposed in recent years. In this paper, key concepts of entrepreneur organization, the benefits and importance of this type of organization and its critical success factors are examined. Necessary procedures and actions for design and implementation of the entrepreneurial organization are characterized. Entrepreneurial organization's future challenges will be discussed. Entrepreneurial organization (with innovation and effective use of resources) uses opportunities for achieving to organizational goals.

Opportunity recognition is a key focal point of research in the entrepreneurship domain in recent years. The purpose of this study was to incorporate individual and environmental factors into a research model in order to investigate the moderating effect of entrepreneurial environment on the relationships between creativity, entrepreneurial experience and entrepreneurial role models and opportunity recognition. Data were collected on 300 students from four public universities in western Iran. The results of structural equation modeling indicated that all three individual factors were significantly related to opportunity recognition while creativity had the strongest relationship. The results of Moderated regression analysis showed the entrepreneurial environment to moderate the relationship between creativity and opportunity recognition, such that the positive relationship was stronger when the environment was conducive to entrepreneurship. This research contributes both to the opportunity identification literature and to theories of institutional environment and personality traits by showing empirically the entrepreneurial environment moderates.

Several evidence indicate that even though a lot of new ideas generate in the minds of individuals, but few have reached the operational stage by start-up new enterprise, product or service that indicate the complexity of idea operational process. Development of ideation and operating of new ideas in trainees of Iranian Technical and Vocational Training Organization can play effective role in increasing productivity and income in new business. Therefore, this study examines the importance and necessity of ideation and new idea generation in technical and vocational training. Research method is document study relevant to organizational ideas, business ideas, creativity and innovation in business to explore how new idea generate and operate. This paper first discusses the definition and concepts of business idea, formation and factor affecting the generation and development of new idea are the other issues raised in this article. Then the necessity of consideration entrepreneurial idea in technical and vocational training is explored. Understanding how identifies business ideas and its origin, and the importance of need assessment of business ideas will be discussed. Finally, some suggestion for more considering the ideas of trainees, formulation training based on business idea to improve the effectiveness of technical and vocational training is provided.

The main purpose of research was Analysis of Agricultural educator''s creativity and investigating it''s relation with effective contextual variables. Research method was descriptive- survey and applied-developmental methods were used. Statistical population consisted of agricultural educators of Agricultural education centers in Kermanshah province (N=60) that studied by census method. Research instrument was questionnaire that developed based on Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) and Hilgard test. Result showed that the educator’s creativity was normal with negatively skewed. Results of correlation coefficient test showed that there was positive significant correlation between، talent of creation novel and new idea، talent of application of novel and new idea، rapidity for recognition of opportunity and threats related with job، independently spirit، risk acceptance، self-confidence and experience in education with creativity and creative thinking of agricultural educators. Also results showed that these variables: talent of creation novel and new idea، talent of application of novel and new idea، talent of consideration to details، independently spirit and self-confidence totally explained 40 percent of variance of agricultural educator creativity.

The purpose followed in this study was to investigate entrepreneurial characteristics prevailent among the Students of University College of Agriculture, University of Tehran carried out through a descriptive-survey method. The research population consisted of students of the University College of Agriculture, University of Tehran from among whom 123 were selected through Stratified Random Sampling method. The instrument of research was questionnaire the reliability of which was assessed through Cronbach's Alpha coefficient found as equal to 0.80. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by judgement of a panel of faculty members of the University College of Agriculture and Entrepreneurship Faculties of Tehran University. Data analysis was accomplished, using SPSS software. The results revealed that around 70 percent of students benefited from high and moderate levels of Entrepreneurial Spirit. The need for achievement, internal locus of control, risk-taking and creativity among most of the students stood at high level but the levels of ambiguity tolerance was rated as low. There were significant differences observed between male and female students, they differently benefiting from creativity and ambiguity tolerance. Male students possessed a higher level of entrepreneurial spirit females. Also, entrepreneurial spirit in postgraduate students stood at a higher level, in comparison with undergrakuate and graduate students. There was no significant relationship observed between student's age and their entrepreneurial spirit.

Nowadays universities are keen to play a more effective role in the development of their societies. Entrepreneurial education for enhancing entrepreneurial mentality in students is one of the new functions of universities and educational centers in meeting society's needs. So, an identification of entrepreneurial characteristics of students can help fostering goals of universities for planning and implementation of entrepreneurship-oriented programs. The purpose of this research was to investigate entrepreneurial mentality among students of Ilam Islamic Azad University. The research was carried out applying a descriptive-survey method. The research population consisted of students of Ilam Islamic Azad University. Using Random Sampling Technique, 115 students were selected. Instrument of data gathering was questionnaire. Methods of Cronbach's Alpha and Split-half were employed to determine the main scales of the questionnaire's reliability. The coefficients were found to be equal to 0.89 and 0.51 respectively, indicating a high level of reliability. Validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by expert's panel. Data analysis was accomplished using SPSS. The results revealed that mentality of ambiguity tolerance, need for achievement, risk-taking, creativity, and internal locus of control among most students while the need for independence amongst most students was low. A comparison of entrepreneurial mentality between newly admitted vs senior students indicated significant difference between these two groups. Male and female students differently benefited from creativity, the females enjoying more creativity than males. As regards other entrepreneurial mentality characteristics there is no significant difference observed between male and female students.