The Relationship between Presence knowledge and Entrepreneurial Capabilities of Razi University Agricultural Students

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Payam noor university

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Recognize opportunities and take advantage of them. The present causal research was conducted with the aim of the relationship between Presence knowledge and entrepreneurial capabilities of agricultural students in Razi University. Participants in this study were 988 students majoring in agriculture and natural resources of Razi University in the academic year 1401-1400 and in three levels of bachelor, master and doctorate (N = 988) that based on Krejcie and Morgan's table, 276 of them were selected as the sample by stratified random sampling with proportional assignment. For data collection, two questionnaires of information literacy (Presence knowledge) of the American College of Library and Research Libraries and the standard questionnaire of entrepreneurship of Durham City Council were used. The formal and visual validity of the research tool approved by professors entrepreneurship also the professors from the Faculty of Agriculture who had experience in the subject. Convergent validity was performed by calculation (AVE) which was equal to 0.8. The reliability of the research instrument was evaluated by the ordinal theta coefficient, which was acceptable. Based on the results, doctoral students had higher Presence knowledge and entrepreneurial ability. But the level of information aristocracy and entrepreneurial ability of undergraduate students was below average. According to Spearman Correlation coefficient, students' Presence knowledge and its dimensions had a positive Correlation with entrepreneurship. Based on the results of sequential regression, the dimensions of information Presence knowledge between 20 to 30% of students' entrepreneurial ability.

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