سیاست نامه علم و فناوری (Jun 2021)
Provide an internationalization model for small and medium-sized industrial businesses supported by the Omid Entrepreneurship Fund
Abstract
In recent decades, small and medium-sized businesses have played an important role in international business. However, insufficient familiarity of company managers with the indicators of internationalization is one of the most important factors that has caused Iran to report an unacceptable situation compared to other neighboring countries in terms of value of the activities of small and medium companies. Accordingly, the present study presents a model of internationalization of small and medium industrial businesses supported by the Omid Entrepreneurship Fund in 1398 using a quantitative research method using the structural equation method. The statistical population of the present study includes experts, elites, university professors in the field of business, entrepreneurship and internationalization and active experts in the field of entrepreneurship, as well as small and medium business managers who are members of the Omid Entrepreneurship Fund; 65 of them have been studied using the Cochran's formula. The results of this study indicate that the variables of product specificity, product diversity have a positive and significant effect on the internationalization of small and medium businesses. At the same time, international relations have a negative and significant effect on the internationalization of small and medium-sized businesses. It is suggested that small and medium business managers supported by Omid Entrepreneurship Fund try to increase and improve the quality, innovation and diversity of their products, which will increase their strength in global markets by increasing the credibility of their brand and customers.
