Innovation is one of the important features of today's organizations in the field of environmental changes,globalization and the profound change of consumer preferences and customer demands as a factor of business successes, and a way of entering the global markets. Als
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Innovation is one of the important features of today's organizations in the field of environmental changes,globalization and the profound change of consumer preferences and customer demands as a factor of business successes, and a way of entering the global markets. Also commercialization and transmission of research findings to the industry and marketing are undoubtedly one of the most complex stages of innovation process. Experiences of different countries show that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in technology development, economic prosperity and employment. According to the most of the scholars, they are the foundation of knowledge-based economy. As a result, the present study intends to shed some light on innovation and commercialization in knowledge-based companies which is an essential issue. The aim of this study is to develop an integrated model for developing the innovation and commercialization level of knowledge-based companies in Iran. This research is a kind of qualitative research that is conducted using grounded theory approach. The statistical population consisted of experts in the field of knowledge-based companies which were selected through theoritical sampling.Finally 13 managers of knowledge-based companies in Tehran province were selected as participants in the research. A semi-structured interview was used for data gathering with general guidance. to obtain reliability and validity of the data, two methods of reviewing participants and non-participants’ experts in the research were used. Based on data analysis, "Entering the market" is an axial phenomenon in developing the innovation and commercialization level of knowledge-based companies, and based on causal conditions, intervening conditions and context conditions, strategies are developed and the final model is presented.
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