Document Type : Original Article
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Sports Management, Faculty of Sports Sciences, Razi University
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Sports Management, Sports Sciences, Razi, Kermanshah, Iran
10.22034/sms.2025.142557.1428
Abstract
In the 21st century, the mission of the university is to train committed, innovative and entrepreneurial human resources. Therefore, promoting entrepreneurial thinking among university graduates makes them become creative, innovative and entrepreneurial people by taking advantage of their potential talents. The purpose of this research was to present the model of creative and entrepreneurial sports science faculty, which was conducted in the period of 2023-2024. The research method was qualitative using in-depth interviews with knowledgeable experts. In this regard, the people related to the subject of the research in the science and technology park departments were the officials of the innovation and entrepreneurship specialized center of the university and the sports science faculty, entrepreneurship experts and academic staff members. Interviews were conducted purposefully and in a snowball manner, and finally 13 people were interviewed. The data obtained from the interviews were analyzed using the foundational data method. In the open coding stage, the results obtained from the signs were identified and with further analysis of the findings from the open coding, finally, 6 main categories were replaced in the axial coding paradigm. Based on the findings of the research, the development of entrepreneurship programs, the creation of innovation centers and accelerators, the awareness of students, interdisciplinary interactions, and the evaluation of the main strategies of the sports science faculty were entrepreneurs, and in this regard, it is necessary for the managers and officials of the ministries of science and higher education and sports science faculties to provide the necessary platform to move towards becoming an entrepreneur with attitudinal-behavioral alignment. The innovation of this research was to highlight the issue of entrepreneurship in sports science faculties due to the increasing unemployment of university graduates and due to the huge capacities of the field of sports as a part of the concerns of the students of this field, which was less paid attention to in past researches.
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