Inhibiting and Promoting Factors of the Development of New Agricultural Technologies in Isfahan Science and Technology Town Activities

Science and technology towns can decrease some of the deficiencies and problems on the way of manufacturing science and technology with providing facilities for innovators indifferent sectors. Agriculture sector is one of the sectors that have changed with the emergence of new technology. The current study is an applied research and has been done through survey method. Target population of the study was all of the experts and faculty members of Isfahan Science and Technology Town (staff group) with 50 members, and also 136 experts of technology incubator (line group). Both groups filled in the questionnaires. The research tool was a questionnaire which its validity was confirmed by a panel of experts and faculty members of Isfahan Science and Technology Town. To confirm the reliability of the instrument Cronbach's Alpha was calculated. The value of the coefficient was 0.87. Finally 40 questionnaires from the staff group and 100 questionnaires from the line group were collected and analyzed with SPSS15/WIN. The result of the research showed that among the inhibiting factors, social, geographical, international laws, infrastructure and economical factor, and among the promoting factors, agricultural infrastructure, managerial, cultural and geographical, technological, economical-political, educational- professional, science infrastructure factor, have the most influence on developing new agricultural technologies in Isfahan Science and Technology Town.