Jundishapur Journal of Health Sciences

Jundishapur Journal of Health Sciences

Entrepreneurship Development in Health Services

Document Type : Research Article

Author
Department of Department of Department of health services management, School of Health, Ahvaz Jundishapour University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, IR Iran
Abstract
Entrepreneurship is often described as the ability to create new ventures from new or existing concepts, ideas and visions. Entrepreneurship involves identification of opportunities, analysis of risk and rewards, strategic pursuit of resources and implementation of a plan of action. Development of entrepreneurial skills and initiatives should become major concerns
of higher education in order to facilitate employability of graduates who will increasingly be called upon to be not only job seekers but also, above all, to became job creators. Knowledge can be transformed into products and processes and is, in this way, exploited commercially. In developed countries, entrepreneurship management is introduced as method for achieving health care organizational survival and growth In order to increase the entrepreneurial capacity of students, it is necessary to initialize entrepreneurship centers in medical sciences universities. These centers are responsible to design and implement the various programs such as educational, research and outreach in universities.
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