The Role of Basij's Knowledge-Based Cooperatives in Developing the Entrepreneurship in the Country

entrepreneurship and transferring practical researches from the universities to industry, and followed by that, transferring the results achieved to the society have been analyzed and examined as key issues by the policymakers and decision makers in both industry and universities. The effective relationship between universities and research centers withindustry and the related sectors in the society, enabling the public sector to participate in science and technology production and facilitating access to advanced technologiesneeded by the country all have been emphasized in the General Policies of Fifth Development Plan. This is entirely impossible without providing targeted (material andspiritual) supports to elites and technology and science innovators and the competent students in the country through helping them in product and service production andsupporting their research achievements. Considering the importance of developing knowledge-based cooperatives in economic development and employment creation and the fact that there is a value-based and people-based organization called National Basij Organization, planning and presenting a model for developing employment and business by means of establishing cooperatives, determining the strategies and the effective factors in developing entrepreneurship, supporting commercializing the products produced by the cooperatives active in technology sector is of an increasing importance.Having examined the effective factors in establishing and developing small and medium knowledge-based cooperatives in universities, this article will present an interactional modelfor establishing Basij’s knowledge-based cooperatives. It hopes that its results will be helpful for, and used by, the concerned policymakers and managers in National BasijEngineering Organization.