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An Evaluation of Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Indicators in Iran (2008-2012)
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Zohreh Modaresi *   , Azadeh Davodi |
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| One of the most important factors related to the Doing Business in any economic is considering on Entrepreneurship. Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Consortium, as the original source of entrepreneurial activity since 1999, analyzes the framework of the Annual Report each year for different countries. In this article, by using of GEM report's finding, we introduce the Global Entrepreneurship indicators and review the situation of Iran in five years (2008-2012) as well as to indicate Iran's position in the development process and to compare with other countries. The findings demonstrate that Iran often uses unskilled labor and natural resources and faces with problems such as lack of stability and support in the fields of cultural, social, media, International entrepreneurship index and the complexity of the administrative procedures of export and import. Also, often Iranian productions are not innovative, technological and product-oriented, but also more traditional, so that is unable to create added value for the economic. Also, the Results from the survey of experts about the challenges of entrepreneurship reveal that among all indicators except access to the physical infrastructure and services, Iran is lower than the world average. Moreover the efficiency indices of intellectual property rights support for high-growth businesses, government programs, social networks, cooperation between enterprises and the entrepreneurs are the worst compared to the global. The implications of this study are discussed along with some recommendations. |
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| Keywords: Doing Business, Entrepreneurship, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. |
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