Organizational readiness for commercialization of academic knowledge based on entrepreneurial ecosystem: development of criteria and experimental test (University of Applied Sciences and Technology case)

According to the role of universities in national development and the importance of knowledge commercialization based on the entrepreneurial ecosystem, the purpose of this study was to identify the factors of organizational readiness for the commercialization of academic knowledge based on the entrepreneurial ecosystem. The research method was mixed qualitative and quantitative and the target population included the Region 3 centers of the University of Applied Sciences and Technology. In this study, after discovering the sub-main and main dimensions of commercialization of university knowledge based on entrepreneurship ecosystem, the criteria of commercialization of knowledge of University of Applied Sciences and Technology were created and then the effect of each dimension with the commercialization performance of scientific-applied centers has was evaluated. This research showed that human resource variables with a beta standardized coefficient (β=0.530), knowledge production infrastructure (β=0.501), interactions (β=0.328), knowledge commercialization infrastructure (β=0.292), strategic influence(β=0.243), knowledge commercialization culture (β=0.242 and) rules and policies (β=0.140) respectively had the greatest impact on predicting the knowledge commercialization performance of University of Applied Sciences and Technology centers.