Designing a Model of Financing Entrepreneurial Strategies of Knowledge-Based Companies in Iran
Subject Areas : مدیریتzahra yari lichaeyi 1 , Gholamhossein Hosseininia 2 , davoud samari 3
1 - PhD student, Entrepreneurship Department, Qazvin branch, Islamic Azad University, Qazvin, Iran (correspondence officer)
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Sciences and Food Industry, Science and Research Unit, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Keywords: Entrepreneurial strategies, financing, model design, knowledge-based companies,
Abstract :
Usually, the strategies established by institutions affect the company's performance, so less attention is paid to systems such as taxation, incentive strategies, maintaining business ownership, and their mentality towards sustainable and continuous growth of startups. This article aims to design a model of entrepreneurial financing strategies. The research method applied has a mixed approach (qualitative-quantitative) of an exploratory type. In the quantitative part of the research, the data collected through a questionnaire designed based on the identification indicators of the entrepreneurial financing strategies model and distributed among the studied community were quantitatively analyzed statistically. For statistical analysis, the structural equation method and SPSS and SMART-PL software were used. In the qualitative section, after reviewing and analyzing the content of all interviews, the proposed model of entrepreneurial financing strategies for knowledge-based companies in Iran includes eight main components, including contextual factors related to potential sources of financing, legal and upstream factors, communication factors, international, regional factors, and sanctions, entrepreneur's characteristics, innovation, business-related factors and, management factors.