Content Analysis of Policies being Appropriate to the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

A proper policy-making process is essential for development of entrepreneurship ecosystem. Government plays an important role in development of entrepreneurship by formulation and implementation of appropriate policies. Lack of attention to the entrepreneurial ecosystem in entrepreneurship development policy-making, causes many problems for entrepreneurial businesses. The purpose of this paper is to provide content analysis of the policies consistent with the dimensions of entrepreneurial ecosystem. Content analysis method was used for analyzing the policies. For prioritizing the five-year development plans, the “Hierarchical Additive Weighting Method” (HAW) of decision making models and “Shannon Entropy Weighting Method” were used. The results show that national macroeconomic policies, including the constitution, the Iran's 1404 Vision policies and the policies of five-year development plans are supporting entrepreneurship. Among the five development plans, the fourth plan has paid greater attention to the entrepreneurial ecosystem and then there are second, first, fifth and third plans. Trend of attention to entrepreneurship in the second and fourth development plans were almost upward and in the third and fifth plans downward slope were observed which represented less attention to the dimensions of the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the policy makers minds. Based on calculations made, attention to ecosystem subsystems was not identical during development plans and support subsystems were less important compared to other subsystems.