Effective Determinants of High Technopreneurship Process in Active Science Based Technological SMEs in the Field of Nano-Food Industry

Nowadays, the inadvertent population, the reduction of food resources and ever- increasing need of communities to supply food has led that entrepreneurship researchers of food industry have drawn to the development of technological entrepreneurship in order to, the optimal production, long term preservation and the quality of food has increased. In the current highly competitive entrepreneurial environment, technological entrepreneurship process is called as the effective factor in economic development of the world markets. The complexity of the competitive markets makes managers of the various enterprises to pay special attention to the subject of technological entrepreneurship in order to be benefited from the emerging of business new opportunities and survival in the competition arena. In this article, effective factors on the process of technological entrepreneurship in active technology small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the field of nano-food in Iran are being evaluated and eventually offered a new conceptual model of technological entrepreneurship process in this field. The qualitative data was collected through interviews. The methodology is adapted from in-depth interviews with 14 academic experts and managers of technological SMEs, policymakers active in Nano- food industry until theoretical saturation state achieved. The gathered data was analyzed using axial and open coding methods. The results show that the effective determinant of high technopreneurship process in active Science based technological SMEs in the field of Nano- food includes of five main factors and 22 axial factors. The main factors consist of organizational, environmental, institutional, technological and individual factors that are shown in new conceptual model of technopreneurship process. The results of this paper can be used for the optimization of high technopreneurship process of technological science based SMEs in nano-food industry in the world countries.