Meta synthesis of dimensions and factors influencing the formation of entrepreneurial opportunity windows

Entrepreneurship includes all activities and actions related to understanding the opportunities to take advantage of these opportunities. Recognizing and exploiting opportunities has been considered as the main subject and essence of entrepreneurship science. In fact, without studying the mechanisms and factors affecting the birth and growth of entrepreneurial opportunities, it is not possible to achieve an accurate understanding of entrepreneurship as a whole. This special time frame is called the opportunity window. The purpose of this study is to identify the signs of openness of entrepreneurial opportunity windows by using environmental changes in order to take advantage of opportunities. This research is a kind of basic research and a Meta synthesis method has been used to do it In this study, 300 articles and books (internal and external sources) were reviewed and after screening, 38 final articles were selected by Critical Appraisal Skills Program method. The Meta-synthesis results showed that the factors shaping entrepreneurial opportunity windows have 8 main categories (technological changes, demographic changes, social and cultural changes, industry and market changes, economic changes, political and legal changes, market defects and new knowledge) and 30 Is a subcomponent.