Cultivating technological innovations in Middle Eastern countries: Factors affecting firms’ technological innovation behaviour in Iran
Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal
ISSN: 1352-7606
Article publication date: 1 October 2006
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to present the results of a research on technological innovation process with the feature of industries in developing countries including Iran.
Design/methodology/approach
Technological innovation characteristics were re‐conceptualised in the context of developing countries and the extent to which a firm's internal factors, its networking and its environmental factors, including national innovation system, can influence its technology innovation behaviour were examined empirically.
Findings
The results address several policy implications, which, although Iran‐specific, may nevertheless be transferable to other developing countries.
Originality/value
To some extent fills the current gap in the determinants of technological innovation and the essential factors for successful industrial innovation in developing countries in general and Middle Eastern countries in particular.
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Citation
Bagherinejad, J. (2006), "Cultivating technological innovations in Middle Eastern countries: Factors affecting firms’ technological innovation behaviour in Iran", Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, Vol. 13 No. 4, pp. 361-380. https://doi.org/10.1108/13527600610713440
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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