Motivational and Legal Barriers of Entrepreneurship Development

Abstract

Nowadays, entrepreneurship is considered as an effective strategy and a milestone in multi-lateral development ofcountries. Preparing backgrounds for developing entrepreneurship requires presenting entrepreneurial teachingsand skills on one hand and necessitates understanding and removing its obstacles and challenges as well asestablishing appropriate backgrounds for developing entrepreneurial trade on the other hand. In this paper, theviewpoints of those researchers who had participated in National Conference on Entrepreneurship Managementand Regional Development (Ilam University, 2009) had been analyzed and interpreted in comparison with legaland motivational obstacles and barriers effective on the development of entrepreneurship by making use of surveymethod and questionnaire as well. The results show that according to the researchers’ viewpoint, the legal andmotivational factors had terminated the development of entrepreneurship in Iran. Moreover, financial risk factorand the fear aroused from inability in management of the business were the first and last factors amongmotivational factors. In addition, the bank regulations and laws factor (banking interest rate, the requireddocuments and conditions for receiving banking facilities) and the environmental rules and regulations were thefirst and last legal factors effective and influential in the failure of entrepreneurship development in Iran. Generally,entrepreneurship researchers are of opinion that the motivational factors are more important than legal factors inthe failure of entrepreneurship development in Iran.