جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "entrepreneurial activity" در نشریات گروه "علوم انسانی"

Economic prosperity depends on knowledge-based development, and therefore the establishment of knowledge-based companies (KBCs) has received serious attention. The purpose of this study is to identify and explain the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in the process of the establishment of KBCs by the faculty members of the Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST). The data gathering instruments of this study were in-depth and semi-structured interviews and the qualitative content analysis technique was used to analyze the extracted data. The statistical population consisted of 23 faculty members of IROST who were founders of KBCs which were selected by purposeful sampling. The triangulation techniques, including the use of confirmatory sources, researchers and various methods were used to determine validity during the data collection and analysis process. Also, the guidance of the interview flow, the creation of a structured process for conducting and interpreting the interviews and the formation of a specialized committee were used to confirm the reliability. The findings were presented in four main themes (concepts) including strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) and 46 sub-themes (codes). The results of the qualitative content analysis showed 13 strengths, 14 weaknesses, 9 opportunities and 10 threats in the process of establishment of KBCs by the faculty members of IROST which can be used in the development of strategies and action plans for the prosperity and development of KBCs.

This paper investigates the effect of tax policy on entrepreneurship in different countries. Therefore, LLC and IPS panel unit root, test for pooled and panel data and Hausman test for Factor-Driven, Efficiency-Driven and Innovation-Driven Countries data have been used in period of 2002-2014. The results shows that tax rate has different effect on entrepreneurial activity in countries with different classification; Such tax rates have negative and significant effect on entrepreneurship in Factor-Driven and Efficiency-Driven countries while this effect is insignificant in Innovation-Driven Countries.

Achieving continuous innovation requires systematic innovation. This، in turn، is in need of identifying the nature of processes and mechanisms of the emergence of innovation systems. Given the critical significance and role of technological innovative systems in technological development and considering previous studies in the area of identifying the influential factors on the formation of such systems، this article tries to conceptualize the issue as well as to answer the questions «What are the factors affecting technological innovation systems formation in Iran?» and «How do they influence the formation of such systems?». The research method is qualitative conducted through Grounded Theory methods of data. Meanwhile، snowball method was applied to targeted depth interviews with nine academic experts، divided into three group including academicians، policy-makers and industrialists. Having analyzed the interviews، the results indicated that the most pivotal factors influencing the formation of technological innovation systems include: contextual، environmental، system structure، functional and strategic ones which could be categorized in 17 distinct categories. Finally، the impact of these factors on the formation mechanism of these systems was discussed in the form of a conceptual model.