The Assessment of Utility and the Role of Rural Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in West Azerbaijan Province

This is an exploratory and descriptive-analytical research. At first, this study aims to assess the status of the rural entrepreneurship ecosystem. Moreover, it assesses the role of each sub-systems of entrepreneurship ecosystem in the emergence of the conditions. The data were collected from literatures and field surveys (questionnaire and observation). The statistical community of current research includes local experts (such as members of Islamic councils of villages and villagers), which consists of 3108 people. 341 people were selected as the sample by stratified sampling using Cochran method. In the first step, one-sample T-test in SPSS software is applied to analyze the questionnaires. The findings show that two subsystems, "Equity of Laws and Regulations" and "Entrepreneurship Education in Universities", are just significant at the level of 0.05 out of the 12 subsystems. Although these two sub-systems are favorable to the national pattern, but none of them perform well in the global model. As the second step, the role of each subsystems in the occurrence of existing conditions was analyzed using the factor analysis method in the LISREL software. It is observed that sub-ecosystems of "commercial and legal infrastructure" and "government programs for entrepreneurship" have maximum effect (by 91% and 75%), and the sub-ecosystem of "social norms" has the minimum effect (by 43%) on the performance of rural entrepreneurship ecosystem.