محمدعلی پایان

The purpose of this study is to present an educational startup model in Iranian higher education. This qualitative study has been done by applying the systematic Grand Theory method. Therefore, the data are used by purposive sampling and by conducting semi-structured interviews with 15 experts in the field of higher education, educational management and educational planning and higher education policies, collection and analysis of qualitative content was done with MAXQDA 2020 software.Findings were extracted in the first stage of open coding of 88 concepts and in the form of six main components; Education, personal characteristics (professor / student), legal-legal, organizational-structural, financial-economic and technology were categorized. Then, in the axial coding stage, the links between these categories were drawn under the following headings: causal conditions, axial phenomena, strategies, ground factors, intervening conditions, and in the form of a paradigm model of axial coding. The results of this research can be used as a model for the implementation of educational startups and provide the basis for the growth and development of such startups in Iran.