Identification of Priority Indicators for Assessment of Entrepreneurship Ecosystems for Implementation in Iran

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Authors

1 barati_amir@gsme.sharif.edu

2 e_yavari@sharif.edu

3 hossein@sharif.ir

Abstract

Entrepreneurship ecosystem” is defined as the elements – individuals, organizations or institutions – apart from the individual entrepreneur that are conducive to, or inhibitive of, the choice of a person to become an entrepreneur, or the probabilities of his or her success following launch. Entrepreneurial businesses operate locally or regionally and are therefore subject to local or regional contextual influence. Moreover particularly in larger countries there can exist significant variation in industry structure and economic base across regions, emphasizing the importance of regional focus. Adopting appropriate policies at the regional level need to have a deep and accurate understanding of the entrepreneurial ecosystems elements. Therefore measuring the entrepreneurial ecosystem has high importance. This study was conducted to have an overview of the existing evaluative entrepreneurship ecosystem frameworks in Iran and other countries and introduce a model for choosing indexes with highest quality base on OECD models.

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