Identifying The Dimensions and Causes of Decline In Satisfaction Of Knowledge-Based Companies In Collaboration With The Fund's From The Perspective Of Executives And Policy Makers: A Case Study Of Innovation And Prosperity Fund

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1 Faculty member of NRISP

2 The student of Science and Technology Policy Making, Tehran University

3 Management of Technology, Allame Tabataba'i University

Abstract

Since the concept of knowledge-based economy emerged, the knowledge-based firms, as a main driver of economic growth and development, has become more important. Therefore, identifying and solving their challenges is important too. One of the main challenges of knowledge-based firms is providing their essential funding which need different mechanisms because of their different nature from other enterprises. Understanding the importance of these firms funding, increase the importance of financing funds in technology such as the Innovation and Prosperity Fund. Thus the interaction knowledge-based firms with financial funding and increasing their satisfaction from getting services tailored to their needs has become one of the policy issues for financing funds in innovation area. In this regard, in this research, the affecting factors on reducing satisfaction of knowledge-based firms in cooperation with the Innovation and Prosperity Fund from the viewpoint of the executives and policymakers are identifiead and analyzed based on quantitative and qualitative combination methodology and focusing on the case study research strategy. In the first step, 18 factors that affect on reducing satisfaction of knowledge-based firms in cooperation with national financial funds were identified and classified in 6 categories. After that, based on case study research strategy, these factors are examined in the Innovation and Prosperity Fund and a framework, which shows the affecting factors on reducing satisfaction of knowledge-based firms in cooperation with the Innovation and Prosperity Fund from the viewpoint of the executives and policymakers , is presented.

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Innovation Management Journal
Volume 7, Issue 2 - Serial Number 24
September 2018
Pages 92-120

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  • Receive Date: 09 October 2018
  • Revise Date: 03 April 2019
  • Accept Date: 24 April 2019

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