JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Year:2017 | Volume:10 | Issue:2 |Papers Count:13

Considering the undeniable role of education in the development of societies, identifying educational methods is a worthwhile topic. The principal objective of this research is to identify the methods of entrepreneurial teaching in affective learning domain using the "Edutainment" approach. The affective domain is mentioned in Bloom's learning taxonomy (1956) beside cognitive and psycho-motor domains. In this study, which is conducted using a qualitative method, the experiences of 13 of the experts in the field of education and entrepreneurship has been documented through semi-structured interviews and the coding method has been used for analyzing the experiences. The results indicate that teachers employ 4 accordant methods with the Edutainment approach for teaching entrepreneurship in the affective learning domain of students which are guest lecturer, educational workshop, role-playing and field trips. Recognizing these entrepreneurial teaching methods can aid both entrepreneurship tutors and educational policy makers in formulation and preparation of entrepreneurship lesson plans and curriculum.

City brand is an important asset for sustainable urban development and is a distinction between cities. City branding is a phenomenon that cities need it in order to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage in the age of globalization and setting up for entrepreneurship. The main aim of this research is designing a city Branding Pattern for Entrepreneurship Development in the Germi city. The research method is fundamental practical according to the goal and in terms of data collection it is qualitative, conducted through the Grounded theory method. In this research, 21 faculty members of urban management, marketing management, executive management, government and cultural management, municipal managers and people with urban management experience were exposed to a deep interview using purposive and snowball sampling methods and then the data was analyzed using open, axial and selective coding. The paradigmatic pattern from the causative required, underlying, confounding variables, strategies and brand consequences (Entrepreneurship development, Social capital development, attract and develop investment and tourism, rural development and the reduction of migration) for the city, the research results are considered.

Entrepreneurs face a variety of challenges before and during launching their businesses, and mentors have an effective role in promoting their capabilities in order to face those challenges. Therefore, this research aimed to identify the role of a mentor in starting-up new businesses by novice entrepreneurs in accelerators. This research is applied in terms of purpose, and follows an event based qualitative approach in which semi-structured interviews were employed in order to identify various aspects of mentors’ (cognitive, affective and managerial) roles. Purposeful and snowball sampling methods were used for the selection of the mentors. Sampling and interviews were continued until reaching theoretical saturation. Although, in the 14th interview, theoretical saturation was achieved, to insure the credibility of the findings the interviews continued to the 17th sample. Analysis of the data and integration of the categories and components of mentor’ s roles revealed that they have played two distinctive roles including: indirect and direct. Totally, 38 categories were identified that were classified into three dimensions (cognitive, affective managerial). Furthermore, two dimensions of learning and new technologies emerged from this study and were added to the framework employed in this study

Today, entrepreneurship is recognized as a competitive advantage in the economies of the countries. The purpose of this study was to provide a model for the determination and effective deployment of entrepreneurial talent using meta-synthesis. This research is applied in terms of purpose in which Meta-Synthesis approach is used. The researcher has done a thorough and in-depth review of the subject using the method of extension and combined the findings of qualitative and quantitative research. 118 articles in the field of entrepreneurial talent were evaluated, that at the end 55 articles were selected and their dimensions and codes were extracted, also their importance and priority were determined by the quantitative Shannon entropy method. According to the findings, creativity, innovative solutions, family expertise, team work, economic issues, innovative opportunities, work skills, propensity to earn money, and socio-cultural factors gained the highest importance score among the six dimensions of entrepreneurial talent. Finally, a pattern for effective determination and establishment of entrepreneurial talent is proposed in three layers of identification, component structure and support plan design.

Starting up a new business needs self-recognition, competencies, skills, market and consumer recognition. Mentoring programs are in line with development of entrepreneurs' competencies. In this program, selecting a qualified mentee is critical, therefore, the aim of this study is to identify the necessary competencies of mentee. The statistical population of this study consists of experienced mentees in accelerators. This research is applied in terms of goal, and descriptive in terms of data gathering. Semi-structured interviews are conducted to list the mentee`s competencies. The sampling method is purposive and the criterion which is used to determine the sample size is theoretical saturation. Open and axial coding is used in analyzing the data. The findings added three categories to … . . 's framework which include, team building, idea and product, and market recognition. For team building, idea nd product and market recognition, respectively, 7, 5, and 6 elements are identified. Two new categories-including entrepreneurial characteristics and readiness-are added to the mentor relationship competencies. In total, 4 dimensions and 16 categories are added to thre required competencies of the mentees.

The current research in terms of purpose is applied and descriptive-survey in terms of data collection. It has been investigated the relationship between social networks and the performance of women's businesses performance with the mediating role of entrepreneurial alertness and gender discrimination. The statistical population of the study includes 148 Iranian female business owners who attended the 13th Women's Entrepreneurship Development Conference. Using Cochran's formulas and simple random sampling, the sample size has been consisted of 106 women. The essential data has been collected by a standard questionnaire. The data analysis has been conducted by the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using the Partial Least Squares; and the statistical software PLS Smart was used. The research findings indicate that there is a significant relationship between the social networks and the women's business performance regarding the mediating role of entrepreneurial alertness and the gender discrimination. Since the social networks influence the women's business performance, so women could improve their business performance through extended and effective communication in the social networks.

According to the importance of knowledge based firms in economic development and job creation, identification of strategies and factors affecting entrepreneurship development, supporting the commercialization of knowledge based products, and the environment in which those firms grow, are of paramount importance. The present research is applied in terms of goal, and is a descriptive survey in terms of data gathering method. The research population includes all the managers of the knowledge based firms located in the Science and Technology Park of Kerman (n=140), among which 103 managers are selected according to the Morgan's table, and a questionnaire is distributed using random sampling techniques. In this research, 50 development factors are recognized from a variety of methods, which are categorized in six groups. Next, the experts compared those factors. Then, the mentioned factors are ranked using Friedman test, as follows: development and technology center creation factors, socio-cultural factors, human resources factors, supportive factors affecting knowledge based institutions in producing technologies, governmental factors, and infrastructural factors.

International business development is important for economic growth and development. Therefore, in the one hand, early-stage entrepreneurs enter into the foreign markets, which according to the institutional theory, is one of the main institutions in internationalization of entrepreneurship On the other hand, the weakness of institutions can be compensated by organizational mechanisms. Concerning the weakness of institutions in developing countries, this research aims to study the impact of institutional factors on the internationalization of early-stage entrepreneurs in developing economies by considering the interaction between institutions and risk taking as an organizational mechanism. This research is applied in terms of goal, and descriptive-correlational in terms of data gathering. For this purpose, secondary data are used and data for 59 developing countries are collected from international reports which present economic and entrepreneurial indices of countries based on survey data. Data are modeled using structural equation approach by SmartPLS3 software. Results indicate that the rate of international entrepreneurship is positively affected by conducive institutions. In addition, findings of this study show that in the countries where entrepreneurs are more risk taking, the impacts of regulatory and cognitive institutions on international entrepreneurship are negatively moderated.

Today, according to the presence of women in different areas of economic activities, and their role in creating a large number of businesses, recognizing their potentials and directing their talents and creativities could be used in order to exploit social capacities. The aim of this research is to explore the women's entrepreneurial intelligence characteristics in entrepreneur women. This is a qualitative and applied research in which content analysis strategy is used. The research population includes women entrepreneurs of the Guilan province. . To gather this sample, purposive and judgmental method is used through semi structured interviews. Conventional content analysis was used and the characteristics have been classified in the six following categories: Entrepreneurial vision, cognitive intelligence, social intelligence, Intuitive intelligence, presumptuous intelligence, Provocative intelligence. Then through qualitative validation, its validity has been tested. Finally, using Shannon entropy the elements were categorized.

This paper aims to analyze the effect of internal marketing mix on entrepreneurial orientation through innovation culture and knowledge management capabilities in cultural-sports clubs. This research is applied in terms of the goal, and descriptive-correlational in terms of the data gathering method. The research population includes the cultural-sports clubs in Tehran and Isfahan provinces, which were selected by simple random sampling techniques. The research sample includes 87 87 cultural-sports clubs inTehran and Isfahan Provinces. In order to gather the data, 174 questionnaires is distributed and gathered from the managers and employees of those clubs. The main research tool is a standard questionnaire which it's reliability and validity is assessed and approved. Structural equation modelling through Partial Least Squares (PLS) is used to examine the relationships between variables. The findings indicate that entrepreneurial orientation is affected by dimensions of internal marketing including strategic reward, training and development, internal communications and senior leadership. Moroever, the findings support the mediating role of innovation culture and knowledge management capacities on the relationship between internal marketing mix and entrepreneurial orientation.