Identification and Prioritization of Critical Success Factors of Khorasan Razavi Science and Technology Park

Science and technology parks are one of the effective structures in technology development. As a consequence، development of knowledge-based economy and professional employment has been considered by many countries. The goal of many of these new structures is to organize an active environment for creation or development of technology chains for productorientation research، developing fields as a result of group work، and supporting purposeful activities of researchers، innovators and companies working in selected fields of technology. On the other hand، each organization requires some major factors that should be necessarily provided in order to achieve its goals. In fact، for each organization، there are fields of activity which should be performed in the best way، in order to achieve its defined goals. These factors، which called critical success factors are in management literature، are inseparable components of organizational success in achieving goals. Science and technology parks، similar to other organizations or institutes، need to provide these factors in order to achieve their goals. The purpose of this research is to identify these factors for khorasan Razavi science and Technology Park، and to specify their relative priority from experts’ point of view، who are familiar with topics related to science parks. For this purpose، after interviewing with experts in this park، 48 factors were identified and categorized in 4 groups. In the next step، these factors were compared by experts. After analyzing the results، their priority in each group as well as their overall ranking was presented by using Friedman test. The factors are ordered as; supporting of knowledgebased institutions in order to produce technology، human resource factors، factors related to development of technology Infrastructures and factors related to development of tech-based centers.