Providing a Model for Discovering Technological Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the field of Nanotechnology
محورهای موضوعی : مجله بین المللی علوم اجتماعی
Ehsan Ghasemi
1
(Ph.D. Student of Entrepreneurship Management, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Mehrdad Navabakhsh
2
(Professor of Sociology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
Nosratolah Shadnoosh
3
(Department of Management, Central Tehran Branch,
Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran)
کلید واژه: nanotechnology, Entrepreneurship, Discovering Technological Entr,
چکیده مقاله :
Nowadays, in order to benefit from discovering business opportunities and staying competitive, companies have to adopt adaptive and innovative strategies to respond to the rapidly changing customer demands and environmental uncertainties. Discovering entrepreneurship opportunities is very important in nanotechnology, and therefore in the present study, a model for discovering technological entrepreneurial opportunities is presented. The research is developmental in terms of purpose and descriptive in terms of method. Based on the studies, the dimensions and components of opportunity discovery and the interview protocol have been developed. Then, the opinions of the managers of 11 knowledge-based nanotechnology companies were examined by a semi-open interview. The analysis technique in this study was grounded theory and the data collected from the interviews were cast in three stages and the last model was finally presented. The results showed that the discovery of technological entrepreneurship is affected by three dimensions of effective, underlying and inhibiting factors. Examining factors can facilitate the conditions for discovering entrepreneurial opportunities. Then, to confirm the designed model and examine the relationships between the dimensions and their components of the, the opinions of 15 experts through a pairwise effect comparison questionnaire were used by ISM technique. The results showed that each component is related to the other components and how they are effective. The researcher's findings showed that for discovering technological entrepreneurial opportunities, what the effective, underlying and deterrents factors are, so that appropriate measures can be taken to develop the discovery of technological entrepreneurial opportunities based on this model.
