2018 Volume 9 Issue 2 Special Issue
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Development of Opportunity in Corporate Technological Entrepreneurship Using the Technological Convergence Approach


Ali Mobini Dehkordi*, Kamal Sakhdari, Mohammad Reza Meigounpoory, Mohammad Hashemi, Mohsen Babaie
Abstract

Today, technological innovations are the key factors in the development and advancement of societies, and technological entrepreneurship is recognized as the main source of disruptive innovations through identification and effective exploitation of technological opportunities. Given the emerging concept of "convergence" in advanced technologies and the opportunities it offers, it is necessary to recognize various dimensions of this phenomenon, especially the process of identifying opportunities, as the first and most fundamental step of the technological entrepreneurship process. The research methodology is qualitative and the research strategy is multiple case studies. The required research data were collected through semi-structured interviews and from other evidence such as archival documents of Iranian companies active in the field of converging technologies. The results of the research reveal the significance of factors such as interdisciplinary understanding, converging open innovation and the type of human capital in the process of identifying opportunities by companies active in the field of converging technologies.


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