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Assistant Professor, Imam Khomeini Training Center, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization, Karaj, Iran
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The present study seeks to investigate the factors influencing the development of entrepreneurship skills among students of science-applied education centers of Fars, Khorasan Razavi and Alborz provinces. The present study is an applied research in terms of the purpose, a causal-relational research in terms of the approach, and a survey study in terms of the method. A researcher-made questionnaire is the main tool of the research which validity was assessed by the expert's point of view, and its reliability was evaluated by the Composite Reliability (CR).The statistical population of the study included the last semester students of scientific-applied education center of the Agriculture Jihad in Khorasan Razavi, Fars and Alborz provinces (670 students).  .The sample size (245 students) was determined using Krejcie and Morgan tables. According to the results of the research, more than 60% of the subjects assessed their entrepreneurial skills at weak and moderate levels. It was also found that three types of educational, economic and psychological factors can explain 61% of variance changes in the development of students' entrepreneurship skills.
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Received: 2018/10/28 | Accepted: 2019/02/24 | Published: 2019/04/10

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