Entrepreneurship in Knowledge and Information Science: An Exploratory Factor Analysis

To identify, analyze and explain the factors impacting entrepreneurship of knowledge and information science students in Iran.
Using structured questionnaire with 6 questions for demographic information and 24 questions for factors affecting entrepreneurship, all knowledge and information science students in Iran were surveyed. Data were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis.
Five factors with above one eigenvalues recognized that were named with titles "skills enhancement", "content", "education", "promote" and "support". These factors explained 74.66% of variances of factors influencing entrepreneurship of knowledge and information science students.
Attention of curriculum planners and knowledge and information science department chairs to five aforementioned factors will increase knowledge and information science student's entrepreneurial and flourish entrepreneurship in the field.