The Relationship Between Entrepreneurial Skills and Radical and Aynkrvmntal Innovations in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Subject Areas : Entrepreneurship and Mnagement of Knowledge-based FirmsAbdolali Zolanvari 1 , jafar nezamdost 2 , mahtab eshghiaraghi 3 *
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Keywords: Entrepreneurial Skill Innovation Environment,
Abstract :
Entrepreneurs have a key role in economic development of many governments throughout the developed and developing countries. The entrepreneurs ‘attendance as a new approach to achieve innovation and use opportunity in order to obtain benefits, growth and organization survival within organizations are particularly important. According to market needs, Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) has converted the efforts to products and services through entrepreneurs ‘help and new ideas. This study is aimed to determine the relationship between entrepreneurial skills and Radical and Aynkrvmntal innovation in SMEs. The method used in this research is descriptive and correlational. The population consisted of 3785 SMEs in Markazi Province was selected. The data was collected through Pachn Martin ‘creation and job innovation questionnaire with Cronbach's alpha coefficient 0/881 and Marguerite Hill ‘s organizational entrepreneurship questionnaire 0/871. Based on obtained results, the relationship between entrepreneurship skills and Radical and Aynkrvmntal innovation was observed in the studied sample (P_ Value= 0/022). And in order to rank the different components of entrepreneurial skills, Friedman and Spearman correlation test were used. The results show that the rating process and management skills are higher than personal, entrepreneurship, technical skills and rank of technical and communication skills are higher than personal skills of entrepreneurship. Skills (technical, managerial, processes, communication, personal entrepreneurship, the external environment and internal environment) influence Radical and Aynkrvmntal innovation.
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