Abstract
Technological entrepreneurship is the latest issue in the field of entrepreneurship and fostering competitive advantages in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) which has been received special attention. Given the lack of coherent literature review to apply technological strategies in SMEs, and also because of the role of technology based firms which are active in industries with new technologies, such as Nano-Technology industry, while the technological entrepreneurship literature review has been investigated, this article is principally intended to identify effective factors on technological entrepreneurship in Iranian Nanotechnology SMEs. The research methodology of the current article is a mixed one; in the qualitative stage, semi-structured and open interviews and investigation of related documents have been used, and in the quantitative stage, the questionnaire has been applied to gather data. In the research’s quantitative stage, a statistical population consisted of managers, expert employees of the case study have been considered, and the simple random sampling method has been used. In addition, in this stage, the questionnaires have been used as the data collection tool and the experts in the qualitative stage measured the research’s validity, and the questionnaire’s reliability has been approved through Cronbach’s alpha of 0.81. The mean analysis has been applied in this stage for the data analysis. The findings of this paper shows that the effective factors on technological entrepreneurship in Iranian Nanotechnology SMEs are categorizes in the four issues of “Internal Processesâ€, “Individual Factorsâ€, “Institutions†and “External Networksâ€.
Highlights
The importance of implementing modern and practical technologies in organizations is undeniable given the complex and dynamic conditions of today's environment
Bearing in mind that the subject of technology entrepreneurship is still emerging, and considering the theoretical and operational deficiencies in the commonalities of technical entrepreneurship, with regards to the pioneering role of Iranian nanotechnology industry as one of the advanced, modern and renowned industries in the world, the purpose of this article is identifying the effective factors on technological entrepreneurship in Iranian Nanotechnology SMEs1.The main question of the present article is that: What are the effective factors on technological entrepreneurship in Iranian Nanotechnology SMEs? In the following, theoretical basis and background is given
In the qualitative stage of the research after conducting the interviews, the four issues according to the background research including “internal processes”, “individual factors”, “institutions” and “external networks” have been classified and drawn from the interviews, in the course of the investigations and open and half-structured interviews from the experts and reviewing the documents, the dimensions of the background research have been confirmed, the frequency of the effective factors on technological entrepreneurship according to the views of the experts present in the study are shown in figure 1
Summary
The importance of implementing modern and practical technologies in organizations is undeniable given the complex and dynamic conditions of today's environment. For the purpose of effective and timely implementation in new technologies commercialization and gaining competitive advantage, organizations need to exploit both their internal and external resources (Zahra & Nielson, 2002). Today organizations act in complex and dynamic environment. Huge and continuous evolutions characterize the business environment and highlight the urge of being in harmony with it (Worthington &Britton, 2006). In such transition, the attention of scientific societies has been drawn to the concept of "entrepreneurship" as a solution to keep and improve business success indexes. Findings of the research will be examined based on content analysis by mixed
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