Investigating and Explaining the Necessities of Benefiting from Technological Entrepreneurship in the Rural Development Process (Case Study of Gharanabad Village, Gorgan)

This study was conducted to investigate the necessities of benefiting from technological entrepreneurship in Gharanabad village of Gorgan city and seeks to address the question of how much technological entrepreneurship can contribute to the prosperity of rural development? The research method of this research is analytical and qualitative. The study population was innovative and creative people of Gharanabad village, using snowball sampling method. The research tool was developed through structured interviews in the form of four questions about the necessity, capacities, consequences and challenges of the technological entrepreneur based on the theoretical framework of the research. The results of each question were categorized and identified in six sections. Technological entrepreneurship is known in the first place as a complementary entrepreneurship and in the next stage it needs to assess the feasibility and potential of rural areas and in the third stage to create awareness among innovative and creative people and in the final stage to determine the market and create the necessary conditions For organizational support in the form of financial and intellectual incentives, it will be necessary. In relation to the challenges of technological entrepreneurship, the results of interview analysis showed that the target market is limited, villagers' risk aversion, temporality and competitive environment of this type of entrepreneurship Lack of necessary incentives and sometimes organizational conflicts lead to the failure of technological entrepreneurship in rural areas.