Identifying and ranking academic entrepreneurship constraints in Islamic republic of Iran higher-level education system by Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)

Regarding the research papers published recently, academic entrepreneurship seems vital to universities survival. In addition, there have always been some constraints to implement thought assets properly so that academic entrepreneurship can be shaped and identifying and removing these constraints is unavoidable. The current paper aims to identify and ranking academic entrepreneurship constraints in Islamic republic of Iran higher-level education system. The research method is applied and developmental and is descriptive and survey. The statistical population is 50 masters and elites of universities who are expert in the field of academic entrepreneurship. Data collection instrument is the paired comparison instrument with 20 items. To analyze data, AHP and the software Expert choice have been used. The results showed that academic entrepreneurship constraints are ranked in terms of importance and relative weight, individual constraints with relative weight of 0.487, organizational constraints with relative weight of 0.356, and environmental constraints with relative weight of 0.157.