the effect of human capital on entrepreneurial opportunity recognition (the case of knowledge based firms in yazd’s science and technology park of eghbal)

the present study aims to investigate the effect of humancapital on entrepreneurial opportunity recognition at knowledge basedfirms in yazd’s science and technology park of eghbal. researchmethodology of this paper is the applied research in terms of the objectiveof the study, descriptive-correlated in terms of the data gathering method,and quantitative in terms of the type of data. our statistical populationincludes 75 managers of knowledge based firms in yazd’s science andtechnology park of eghbal. due to the limited numbers of managers, wedecided to apply the census method for sampling. we used structuralequation modeling with smart pls 2 software for analyzing data in twosections of measurement model and structural model. in measurementmodel section, technical features of the questionnaire in terms ofreliability, convergent validity, and discriminate validity wereinvestigated. moreover, in structural model section, path coefficientswere used for testing hypotheses. the results indicate the positive andsignificant effect of human capital on entrepreneurial opportunityrecognition at knowledge based firms in our sample. thus, in order to geta better recognition of entrepreneurial opportunities through anorganization, we should enhance the conditions of human capital.