Identifying and Ranking the Factors Influencing the Commercialization of the Results of Academic Research Case Study: Zahedan Higher Education Institutions

Today, the commercialization of research results towards social-economic development and future success of communities has become an undeniable necessity. Commercialization is an important part of innovation process and any technology and products will not be marketed without it. Giving importance to knowledge and technology to provide the necessary conditions for economic growth and technological community will provide economic benefits for many organizations in implementation of commercialization. The aim of this study was to identify and rank factors that influence business-related research and entrepreneurship in higher education institutions in Zahedan also offering affective solutions based on the results, overall, fourteen factors were identified which after ranking of these factors, supportive factor as the most important factor and education–research factor as the least important factor was identified.