Urban Entrepreneurship Development Strategies in Tehran Social Context

Developed cities can be taken advantages of urbanization (phenomenon) as a "path to progress and development", not as a challenge or crisis through using modern urban management methods. In this connection, urban entrepreneurship has effective impact on urban communities through transforming serious challenges (of urban society) into the significant opportunities such as employment growth rate, citizens’ income, reduction of the number of crimes caused by unemployment and poverty, the enhancement of citizens’ self-sufficiency and etc… . Hence, the research aims to realize the appropriate social environment for the development of urban entrepreneurship phenomenon in order to identify social barriers facing this phenomenon in Tehran through using the qualitative research method. Then, 45 codes (in open coding phase) and 7 codes (in axial coding phases) which includes social tolerance, social responsiveness, social imaging, social sensitivity, social regulation, local identification and knowledge explicitness have been identified respectively through conducting 18 in-depth socio-economic experts. Finally, according to the findings of the research, some solutions have been proposed such as social empowerment and streaming.