Employing Knowledge Attributes Achieve Entrepreneurial Learning: An Exploratory Study of the Opinions of a Sample of the Teaching Staff at the Technical Institute / Karbala
Keywords:
Knowledge Attributes, Entrepreneurial LearningAbstract
The current study employing the correlation and influence relationship between the Knowledge Attributes (knowledge embeddedness, knowledge distance) and the Entrepreneurial Learning with its dimensions (explorative leering , exploitative leering)., One main hypothesis was formulated and two sub-hypotheses emerged, 94 questionnaires were distributed to the teaching staff at the Technical Institute of Karbala, of which 86 were returned by 91%, while the questionnaires were not valid for analysis 14 by 9%, which is of vital and prominent importance in the field of education and knowledge and its diverse practices in creating an educated, civilized and educated generation. The data were collected through a questionnaire prepared For this purpose, , SPSS vr programs were used. 24 To extract the results of correlation and influence and test hypotheses, as the validity of the hypotheses was found in the light of the results of the statistical analysis, and a number of recommendations were reached, perhaps the most prominent of which is the existence of a vital and prominent effect of knowledge Attributes in the Entrepreneurial Learning.
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