Strategic Management of Iranian Technology Parks

This research attempts to formulate an analytical model for the studying and assessment of necessary factors that have strong effects on the level of Iranian Technology Park’s competitiveness. The conclusion of this model led to increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of Technology Parks planning stage. The main framework of this research is based on studying the projects and research, which in their methods use the Porter's diamond model or SWOT analytical method. In the other hand, this framework is customized for future needs of Technology Parks and clarifies the kind of information that must be gathered. Identify the core competencies and competitive advantages of the Iranian Technology Parks are the most important thing of this research. So with using this information we can design more competitively plans for the Technology Parks sustainable development. One of the innovative and newly aspects of this research is the formulating and combining an analytical model for assessment the technology parks capabilities and competitiveness. Also, most of existing knowledge and articles about technology parks just limited to macro condition and do not pay attention to detailed competitiveness issues and their total needs. So, the proposed model tried to produce detailed information about key success factors for technology parks. Using the interview method for gathering the information as the only method is one of this research limitation. If we use many methods for information gathering, surely we can expect high quality from this research. Also, lack of detailed information and knowledge about technology parks, SWOT analytical method and Porter's diamond model are the most challenges of this research. Any way, it’s preferred to apply proposition model in the other technology parks to raising the validity of model. Apply the proposed model led to identifying pre-conditions and factors to achieve Technology Park’s success and help us to gain obvious sight for preparing the right plans. In fact, we can use this information to design promotion programs for primary needs in order to facilitate technological and industrial development in a Park’s region.

Keywords:

Technology Park , Porter's Diamond Model , SWOT Method , Research and Development