Iran's High Technology development, Finance (investment) and informal institutional factors

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Tarbiat Modares University

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This study institutional framework, focusing on the impact of informal institutions on the financing these industries and increase investment culture (main factors) in the development of high-tech industries and upgrade the country's gross domestic product interior country.
space and facilities, and the treatment was conducted through a questionnaire. Structural equation modeling or multivariate analysis with latent variables were used to test the hypotheses. The analysis was performed using PLS software. The relationship between finance or invest in these industries and categories of cultural trilogy, as well as the relationship between the items and issues affecting triple investment is significant. As a result, regardless of the policy to meet (or strengthen) institutional factors identified 22 districts to finance the development of those industries, capital resources will be adequate supply.

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