A survey to establish influencing factors in Technology Business Incubator's effectiveness and their explanatory model

In Both developed and developing countries, governments play a basic role in making policies, programs and instruments which support the development of micro, small and medium enterprises. One of the mechanisms employed to nurture small firms for more than two decades is business incubation. One of the mechanisms employed to nurture small firms for more than two decades is technology business incubation. The main purpose of this research was to establish influencing factors in Technology Business Incubator's effectiveness and their explanatory model. Therefore, among 56 Technology Business Incubators in Iran, 32 active incubators were selected and by stratified random sampling, 528 start-ups were chosen. The validity of research questionnaires was determined by expert consensus, item analysis and factor analysis; and their reliability calculated by Cronbach’s alpha. Data analysis was then made through SPSS and LISREL. Both organizational procedures and entrepreneurial behaviors were the meaningful mediators. Organizational procedures with (P <. 01, β =0.45) was stronger mediator for the improvement of Technology Business Incubator's effectiveness comparing to entrepreneurial behavior with (P <. 01, β =0.36).