Entrepreneurship Mentor Development Ecosystem

The issue of exploiting and nurturing entrepreneurial mentors is a new approach to the sustainable development of the entrepreneurship ecosystem. The present study was formed with the aim of developing ecosystem of entrepreneurship mentors and in this regard, while explaining the concept, has explained the ecological and environmental factors of its formation. This research is exploratory in terms of purpose, developmental in terms of result, and qualitative in terms of data type. Interview and questionnaire tools were used to collect information and confirm their quality. Content analysis methods were used to extract information from the interview data. Entrepreneurship mentors in accelerators in Tehran province formed the research participants. Sampling was purposeful and 11 participant were selected using the snowball method. Findings show that the categories of mentoring education, organizational and governmental factors in the dimension of formal factors and society and mentoring culture and mentoring family in the dimension of informal factors along with 12 concepts form the model of entrepreneurial mentoring ecosystem.