Agricultural Education Administration Research

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The main aim of research was to investigate factors which distinct two categories of intention in Business Startup Behavior Based on students' entrepreneurial passion among University students. Research method was descriptive correlation study. The statistical population comprised of senior and junior undergraduate students as well as graduate students of the University College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Tehran University. 205 students were selected using the Daniel formula through quota sampling method. Research instrument was a questionnaire whose validity and reliability were reviewed and approved. A dominant statistical method was binary logistic regression. The results of this empirical study indicate that a significant variable in predicting entrepreneurial passion is entrepreneurship Intention. It was also found that only students who have experienced high levels of entrepreneurial passion, experience a salient intention to startup businesses. The results of the sensitivity analysis for logit models showed satisfied performance in the separation of intentions levels according to entrepreneurial passion. Also experiences in entrepreneurship course could result in willingness among students to start a business but did not show significant role of gender in this regard.

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