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Although the age of nanotechnology in the world is almost half a century, but now it has become to an influential technology in different areas of industry. In recent decade, Nanotechnology becomes a technology which has competitive advantage for the world, with rapid growth in different fields of knowledge production and planning for commercialization the research achievements. In the mean time, achieving competitive advantage through the development of new products in the field of nanotechnology requires awareness of all active and talent people in this field of the concept of technological corporate-entrepreneurship. In this article, effective factors on the process of technological corporate-entrepreneurship in active technology companies in the field of nanotechnology in Iran are being evaluated and identified and eventually offered a new conceptual model of corporate technopreneurship process in active knowledge-based technological firms in nanotechnology area. The qualitative data was collected through interviews. The methodology is adapted from in-depth interviews with 12 academic experts and managers of technological firms, policymakers active in Nanotechnology industry until theoretical saturation state achieved. The gathered data was analyzed using axial and open coding methods. The results show that the effective determinant of corporate technopreneurship process in active knowledge-based nano-technological firmsincludes of five main factors and 30 axial factors. The main factors are consisting of organizational, external, institutional and other new factors, i.e. technological and individual factors that are shown in new conceptual model of corporate technopreneurship process. The results of this paper can be used for the optimization of corporatenano-technopreneurship of active knowledge-based technological firms in all of world countries.
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