Entrepreneurship capacities development among students in higher education relies on individuals’ capacity to recognize opportunities; because the opportunity recognition is the first step in the process of developing entrepreneurship. Since the perceived entrepreneurial opportunities are the first and most important step in the entrepreneurship process, this study investigates the entrepreneurial opportunity recognition capacity among agriculture students at Ilam University. The sample consisted of 100 senior undergraduate students in agricultural majors at Ilam University, Illam province, Iran, selected through a stratified random sampling technique. The results showed that the perceived entrepreneurial opportunity capacity among students were moderately low. According to structural equation modeling, the entrepreneurial alertness had a positive and significant effect on the entrepreneurial opportunity recognition capacity. Therefore, the findings of this study revealed the importance of the entrepreneurial alertness for predicting the ability to identify entrepreneurial opportunities among higher education students.

Nowadays، problems of unemployment among youth population and low level of economic growth، shows the importance of investment and particularly research in the field of entrepreneurship. Research on entrepreneurial opportunities recognition، as the first step in entrepreneurship process، is of particular importance. Lack of financial resources، inadequate supportive polices and inadequate infrastructures، make it difficult to recognize entrepreneurial opportunities in agriculture sector. This review paper aimed to develop a model for entrepreneurial opportunities recognition in agriculture sector. To develop the model، previous studies on the determinants of entrepreneurial opportunities recognition were investigated، and previous research limitations were considered. In the final model presented in the current paper، personality traits (creativity، self-efficacy and competitiveness)، demographic characteristics (age، education and experience)، social network، knowledge، and institutional environment (cognitive institutions، normative institutions and regulative institutions) directly or indirectly influence entrepreneurial opportunities recognition in agriculture sector.

Investigating institutional factors is one of the strategic ways to take advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities in the sports tourism industry.The purpose of this study is to identify the institutional factors affecting the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities in the tourism industry with a focus on sports tourism in Iran. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and is a qualitative research in which the systematic data method and Glaser approach were used to analyze the data.Interview was the main method of data collection in this study, which was purposefully interviewed with 25 experts. Interview questions were regulated on the regulatory-legal-administrative, normative-cultural, cognitive-educational and guidance-support dimensions that affect the exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities. At the same time as collecting data and conducting interviews, data analysis was performed.Based on the results of the research, finally 74 indicators of factors affecting the use of entrepreneurial opportunities for sports tourism in Iran were identified, which after coding these indicators were classified into 11 central factors, of which 4 final dimensions emerged.According to the research findings, it can be concluded that in order to take advantage of entrepreneurial opportunities in the sports tourism industry, the identified institutional factors should be used with greater convergence.

Persian handmade carpet is regarded as one of the most important sources of foreign exchange income to the country and an important export product of Iran. Unfortunately, a breaking down recession in export of handmade carpet has been occurred in the past decade. This is mainly because of lack of exploring entrepreneurial opportunities in this industry. The present study with the aim of investigating the most effective factors on determining entrepreneurial opportunities has been conducted in order to provide the basis for developing the exploration of entrepreneurial opportunities for exporters of handmade carpets. Prior knowledge, perceived self-efficacy, mentors, regular search for the opportunities, social communication networks, information flows, creativity, social learning, entrepreneurial Alertness and expediting forces are the factors considered in this research. This research is done through a mix method. The population of the study included about 50 carpet exporters from Esfahan and via snowball sampling method 42 carpet exporters were selected. The results showed that social communication networks, entrepreneurial Alertness, expediting forces, perceived self-efficacy, prior knowledge and mentors are more effective than the other factors in exploring entrepreneurial opportunities in exporting Esfahan handmade carpets.

Although opportunity identification is a prerequisite for entrepreneurial development in any field and without it, entrepreneurial activity does not occur, but it is necessary to identify the factors affecting the development of entrepreneurial opportunities in order to make the necessary policy to take advantage of them. Despite its many capabilities, the handicrafts sector has not yet been considered in terms of factors affecting its entrepreneurial opportunities. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to presenting an analytical model of components affecting the creation of entrepreneurial opportunities, which has been done on a case study in the handicrafts sector of Golestan province. The research method in this study is mixed (quantitative and qualitative). First, in the quality section, 5criteria and 22sub-criteria affecting the creation of entrepreneurial opportunities in handicrafts were identified based on the opinion of 20 experts and senior experts in entrepreneurship and handicrafts who were selected by snowball sampling method. Then, in the quantitative section, by sampling 171 handicraft activists in Golestan province, the criteria and sub-criteria identified in the first stage were ranked using ANP. The results showed that the sub-criteria of tax laws and regulations, new methods and approaches of handicraft production and upgrading the culture of handicraft education have the most impact and the sub-criteria of social capital, export and product application have the least impact on creating entrepreneurial opportunities in handicrafts, respectively. Examining the total score indicates that social and cultural criteria are more important than other criteria in creating entrepreneurial opportunities for handicrafts

The present paper undertakes to investigate the effect of an organization‘s structural capitals on recognition of entrepreneurial opportunities in knowledge-based companies at Eqbal Technology and Science Park of Yazd Province. The research sample included 75 executive managers working in the sample companies which on the ground of the limited number of the participants، the survey method was used but only 66 questionnaires out of 75 were complete as and returned to the researcher. The research instruments included Moon and Kim standard questionnaire to measure the structural capital side as well as Puhakka standard questionnaire to recognize the entrepreneurial opportunities. The data were analyzed by means of Partial Least Squares and Smart PLS2 software in the measuring model and the structural model. The results show the positive and meaningful effect of an organization‘s structural capital on the recognition of the entrepreneurial opportunities in knowledge-based companies of the research sample. Therefore، one of the effective factors in improving the conditions of recognizing entrepreneurial opportunities is organization‘s structural capital which should be reinforced.

Entrepreneurship is defined as the process of the entrepreneurial organizations. Always, entrepreneurial organizations directly or indirectly through taking consideration from customers, identify and utilize the entrepreneurial opportunities in their industry. Hence, identifying the entrepreneurial opportunity is one of the most important study areas in entrepreneurial researches.In this research, according to Antony Ulwick's opportunity algorithm and through taking consideration from 216 doctor and Paramedical in three areas, patient reception services, hospital environment hygiene and medical equipment, entrepreneurial opportunities in Shariaty hospital are identified. According to result, in priority, use of multi task machine is first and mechanized system of disposition and provision of electronic health file are second and third in sequential.

The significance of social networks as a key element in entrepreneurial activity becomes more evident. Social networks constitute a basis for social coherence and facilitate the flow of resources and information. The main propose of this paper is to identify the role of social network of entrepreneurs in entrepreneurial opportunity recognition. To this end, a social network, as an independent variable, consists of four dimensions (structure of social relations, social sources of information, content of social relations, and methods of information transfer) and opportunity recognition as the dependent variable has two dimentions (the number and the diversity of opportunities recognized). In this article the role of social network and its dimensions in entrepreneurial opportunity recognition is examined via a survey study among 101 entrepreneurs located in the science parks in the City of Tehran. The results indicate that the entrepreneurs, social network has a positive relationship with opportunity recognition and from among the dimensions of social network, the content of social relations has the most positive effect on entrepreneurial opportunity recognition.

Tourism and related opportunities are one of the best known strategies of rural development in the field of entrepreneurship. Opportunity identification is key component of the entrepreneurial process and one of the main factors in the survival and development. In this research we discus about process identifying entrepreneurial opportunities in rural tourism in Varzegan region. It includes collecting، classification and analyzing and modeling information related to tourism and entrepreneurship through GIS and MCDM. The result shows that rural areas of Varzegan region have suitable entrepreneurial opportunities for rural tourism

The concept of opportunity can be considered as one of the most central and sometimes even the most central issues of entrepreneurship. At the same time, opportunity is one of the most controversial concepts in the entrepreneurship literature, as the assumptions underlying the function of identifying entrepreneurial opportunities and also the nature and characteristics of this phenomenon confront with different approaches and sometimes even paradoxical approaches. In this situation, different approaches and methods for exploiting them in entrepreneurial tasks are also desirable. While referring to the definitions and the central role of the concept of opportunity in the scientific literature of the Entrepreneurship, the present article has attempted to study the viewpoints of prominent researchers of economics and entrepreneurship fields. In the economic supply and demand approach, based on philosophical assumptions and the Means-Ends framework, models of allocation, discovery and creation are the three main patterns in the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities task. Furthermore, Schumpeterian and Kirznerian Opportunities are the two main and distinct perspectives on entrepreneurial opportunities that have developed two main streams of entrepreneurial opportunity studies and research. These two perspectives, in contrast to each other, can be examined from different dimensions of models, approaches, nature and requirements of the phases of entrepreneurial opportunities exploitation and value creation.