Factors Influencing Technological Entrepreneurship Process in the Field of Services for Individuals with Disability. A Qualitative Study: Urban management in Tehran Mohammadi Shaghayegha, Momayez Ayatollahb, Rahbar Farahadb aMS.C Student, Faculty of Entrepreneurship, University of Tehran, Iran bFaculty Member, University of Tehran, Iran Online published on 15 April, 2014. Abstract Assistive technologies have recently had a positive influence on various aspects of the life of people with disability, including the adaptation of urban environments for the Improvement of their social condition. The use of assistive technologies in this area has made the technopreneurs to think about this subject and improving it more. As researches have not previously evaluated the technopreneurship process in the field of services for people with disability in urban management, this study was aimed to identify the effective factors involved in this topic. A set of data was collected by in-depth field and semi-protocol interviews with adaptation experts and key informants in Tehran, Iran. The collected data have been analyzed by the Emerging Grounded Theory method. The results of this research show the importance of identifying technopreneurial opportunities as the core category in technological entrepreneurship for the people with disability in urban management of Tehran. It is also concluded that internal process capabilities, external networks characteristics, institutional, regulatory, normative and cultural factors were effective factors in this field. Top Keywords Disability, Technopreneurship, Urban management. Top |