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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PARKS: MISSIONS, FUNCTIONS AND ROLES IN HIGH-TECH FIRMS OPERATING IN EMERGING COUNTRIES/PARCUES CIENTIFICOS Y IECNOLRGICOS: MISIONES, FUNCICNES Y ROLES EN EMPRESAS DE ALTA TECNOLOGIA QUE OPERAN EN PAISES EMERGENTES

Given the vital role of Science and Technology (S&T) Parks in SME development, this article aims to study function, missions and roles of these parks in developing Iranian SMEs. For those entrepreneurs and SMEs focused on commercializing science, these parks provide essential information and adv...

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Published in:Ad-minister : revista de la Escuela de Administración, Universidad EAFIT Universidad EAFIT, 2021-07 (39), p.73
Main Author: Khayatian, Mohammad Sadegh
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Language:Spanish
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Summary:Given the vital role of Science and Technology (S&T) Parks in SME development, this article aims to study function, missions and roles of these parks in developing Iranian SMEs. For those entrepreneurs and SMEs focused on commercializing science, these parks provide essential information and advice, as well as proper equipment and services to set the ground for growth and development and an effective and independent presence in today's competitive market. In the first phase, literature reviewed and the functions of S&T Parks in previous research extracted. Then, the extracted missions were distributed among the experts in the form of Delphi questionnaire. Finally, after three rounds of Delphi questionnaire, the missions were finalized and the functions of each mission were operationally described based on the opinions of experts. KEYWORDS S&T Parks, Commercialization, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, Delphi Survey. Debido al papel fundamental de los parques de ciencia y tecnologfa (C&T) en el desarrollo de las pymes, este artfculo tiene como objetivo estudiar la funcion, misiones y roles de estos parques en el desarrollo de las pymes iranfes. Para estos emprendedores y pymes centradas en la comercializacion de la ciencia, estos parques proporcionan informacion y asesoramiento esenciales, asf como el equipo y los servicios adecuados para sentar las bases para el crecimiento y el desarrollo y para una presencia eficiente e independiente en el competitivo mercado actual. En la primera fase, se hizo una revision de la literatura y se extrajeron las funciones de los parques C&T de investigaciones previas. Luego, se distribuyeron las misiones obtenidas de los expertos a traves del cuestionario Delphi. Finalmente, despues de tres rondas del cuestionario Delphi, las misiones se finalizaron y las funciones de cada mision se describieron operativamente con base en las opiniones de los expertos. PALABRAS CLAVE Parques C&T, Comercializacion, Pequehasy Medianas Empresas, Encuesta Delphi 1. Associate Professor, Institute for Science and Technology Studies, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran. Email: M_khayat1an@sbu.ac.1r ORCID:
ISSN:1692-0279
DOI:10.17230/Ad-minister.39.4