Participatory Financing Model of Technological Projects in the Growth Stage within the Framework of the Interest-Free Banking System

Abstract

The financing of technological projects in the can be used to accelerate the growth, attract capital or supply liquidity to knowledge-based companies. The cooperative financing model in the framework of usury-free banking with the support of the real sector of the economy and the correct implementation of bank contracts play a key role in achieving Islamic banking system. The aim of the research is to identify the factors influencing investment in the technological projects of the incubation phase and to design the model of cooperative financing of the projects in order to create a risk distribution mechanism, attract people's participation, and support the knowledge-based economy. This is a development-applied research and the way of data collection is survey type. To collect data, a researcher-made questionnaire distributed among the experts of the risky investment system and the managers of the banking system was used. Factors affecting investment were identified in two sectors, including internal to the organization such as entrepreneurial team, product characteristics and technological company, and external to the organization such as technological business ecosystem and macroeconomic factors. The method of The Partial Least Squares regression (PLS) with the help of Smart Pialas software showed that the investment stages of technological projects have a medium and high impact on investment. Then, the proposed financing model was presented by using cooperative contracts according to the operational model and playing the role of bank intermediary in the usury-free banking system.

Keywords

• venture capital
• participatory financing
• technological projects
• interest-free banking system
• the partial least squares method