The nascent academic entrepreneurship pathway: contextual analysis and discovery of processes and mechanisms of knowledge-based companies in Isfahan

Document Type : علمی - پژوهشی

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1 Associate professor, university of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran.

2 Phd student counseling, university of Isfahan,. Isfahan, Iran.

Abstract

Objective: This study aimed to analyze the context to identify the processes and mechanisms of the nascent academic entrepreneurship path in knowledge-based companies in Isfahan, to provide a paradigm model of the nascent academic entrepreneurship path. Method: The qualitative research method is grounded theory and in-depth and unstructured interviews were conducted with 15 academic entrepreneur in 15 knowledge-based companies in a Purposive sampling and the snowball technique. Data were analyzed at three levels of open, axial, and selective coding. Results: Data analysis showed that the nascent academic entrepreneurship path includes 64 sub-categories, 16 categories, and 2 core categories. The subcategories include: Scientific Orientation, Opportunistic Perspective, Financial Productivity, Action Value, hardness, Flexibility, calling, affection Capability, Process Growth, Creating Support, Specialism, Excitement, Functional Capability, Inquisition, Creativity, and Foundationalism. The core categories include Indexism and Empowerment. Conclusion: The nascent pathway to academic entrepreneurship starts from the family background and early work experiences in childhood. The role of causal factors causes concern in the individual, which the positive effects of intervention factors such as scientific orientation intensify the role of these causal factors. Eventually, people are attracted to the academic entrepreneurship pathway and work in it using appropriate strategies. What people experience at the end of the pathway is post-entrepreneurial growth in both personal and professional dimensis

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Career and Organizational Counseling
Volume 13, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
February 2022
Pages 65-90

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