Review and assessment of the characteristics of Dehyaran entrepreneurial and the effect of technical and professional skills on it

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For entrepreneurial activities, a wide range of skills is required. Technical and professional skills are essential for success in business process. Technical skills of successful entrepreneurs are beyond the production of goods or common services in the market. The main purpose of this paper is to assess entrepreneurial characteristics and to evaluate the effect of technical and professional skills on Dehyaran , as new rural managers. The findings of recent researches have shown that behavioral characteristics of entrepreneurs enjoy high variations. Considering the diversity of these characteristics, four cases were selected and a survey questionnaire was distributed among 76 rural executives (Dehyaran) in villages of Miyandoab city and then findings were analyzed. According to the results of the study, Dehyaran’ scores are more than average (2.5) in three characteristics, and it shows that it is extremely strong. Their scores, however, show weakness in other characteristics. On the whole, Dehyaran of this study have an entrepreneurship mean that is more than the average level (3). Moreover, measuring the effect of two variables of age and education (peripheral variables) and technical and professional skills and the desire to launch a business as combinations of two variables, we found that the combinational variables of education – technical and professional skills and education – inclination to set up business, have no effect on Dehyaran entrepreneurship level, but the combination of variables of age -technical and professional skills and age - inclination to set up a business has a significant relationship with Dehyaran entrepreneurship.

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