The Effect of hope on Entrepreneurial Passion with the Mindfulness as the Mediator

Hope is one of the factors that affect people's entrepreneurial passion. Creating hope follows a positive attitude towards the business person and leads to the promotion of people entrepreneurial passion. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of hope on the entrepreneurial passion of entrepreneurs. Research method is descriptive-correlational and also Statistical Society includes the Science & Technology Entrepreneurs Park in Tehran University. Method was Simple random sampling and to determine the sample size is used of Cochran formula that were selected 120 entrepreneurs of the Science and Technology Park of Tehran University. For data collection, is used of the Hope Questionnaires of Schneider et al. (1991), entrepreneurial passion from Kardn's et.al (2009) and mindfulness questionnaire of Bauer et al (2006) and to analyze the data, is used of PLS software. The results show that hope has a positive effect on the entrepreneurial longing and among dimensions of hope, including functionality, planning to achieve goals and willpower, functionality has the greatest influence on entrepreneurial passion

entrepreneurs, Park, positive effect