Comprehensive Value Creation University Model

Today, most of high education experts consider value creation (a term different from entrepreneurship or entrepreneur) a condition for the survival and development of universities and higher education systems. Because in the era of the development of advanced technologies and knowledge-based industries in the global, regional, national and even local economies only through the strengthening of university-industry interaction can cope with current widespread crises. The purpose of this study was to design a model of value creating University with emphasis on indicators of higher education system. The research method in terms of purpose and implementation was applied and mixed (combination of exploratory plan and taxonomy development plan) respectively. The statistical population consisted of two qualitative and quantitative groups. In the qualitative part 15 individuals were selected from the academic experts and professors in Golestan province and in quantitative part 140 individuals of the staff from the Ali Abad Katoul University. The selected sample volume based on Morgan's formula was 103. Sampling in the present study was judgmental or purposive at the first stage and simple at the second stage. The research tool was a questionnaire. Data analysis was conducted manually in qualitative part by Grounded method (open-axis-selective coding) and in quantitative part by structural equation method and SPSS and Amos software. The results showed that (1) interventionist conditions with focus on the indicators of higher education system, i.e. structural component, had a positive effect on the central category, (2) central category has a positive effect on the encouraging, financial and pragmatic strategies, (3) strategies have positive impact on individual and social outcomes, (4) intra-organizational platforms have positive impact on central category and (5) the causal category, namely the indicators of the value creating university and the evolution of the higher education system, has a positive effect on the central category.