Designing Knowledge Map of Entrepreneurship in Iran based on Iran's Persian Scientific Researches

Entrepreneurship is one of the interdisciplinary sciences that has recently received a lot of attention and plays a strategic role in the development of science and technology in the country. But the development of this knowledge needs to policy making and also in turn requires an accurate understanding of the current status of the field of entrepreneurship in the country. Map of science, is a tool that is able to provide the knowledge to policy makers, this study aimed at mapping based on scientific knowledge of entrepreneurship, Iran's Persian scientific researches in recent years (2000-2011) has been performed. Survey of all Persian scientific paper and research in the field of entrepreneurship that had been collected from the SID database, from the number of scientific papers, 219 samples have been selected and analyzed. Data were analyzed using Pajek software. The credibility and transferability of data were assessed. The results showed that the largest number of published papers were in the areas of "organizational entrepreneurship" and "individual entrepreneurship". "Journal of entrepreneurship Development" and "Quarterly Journal of New Economy & Commerce" have most subscribed, and Journals "Women's Studies" and "psychological outcomes" lowest common themes in the articles published by Industry, Agriculture and Services sectors in the area of entrepreneurship.