Presenting an Interpretive Structural Framework for Entrepreneurship Development in Higher Education with Social and Economic Consequences (Case study: University Central Tehran Branch)

This study was conducted with the aim of providing a framework for entrepreneurship development in higher education based on social and economic consequences. In this research, mixed quantitative and qualitative methods were used for modeling. The statistical population of the qualitative stage was 10 entrepreneurship experts and professors of the entrepreneurship department. The sampling method was snowball. The statistical population of the quantitative stage was 80 experts and specialists in the field of entrepreneurship who were selected by cluster sampling method. The data collection tool was semi-structured in qualitative stage, documentation (systematic review) and in-depth interview, and its reliability was confirmed by the internal agreement of the coding partner. Quantitative research method is interpretive structural modeling for leveling categories. Structural equations were used to confirm the relationships between the components. The results showed that entrepreneurship development has seven levels: community value infrastructure in the first level, culture building in the society and government requirements in the second level, social entrepreneurship university structure and policy-making and setting goals for social entrepreneurial development. University and Management and Human Capital Prerequisites of Universities at Level Three, Activities and Measures and Academic Communications and Interagency Interactions at Level Four, Student Prerequisites at Level Five, Student Activities and Levels at Level Six Strengthening the position of the Social Entrepreneur University in the community is at level seven. Finally, the results showed that the consequences of entrepreneurship development have four levels.