performance improvement of iranian knowledge based firm: identify effective factors in ‎policies and executive programs ‎

he article investigates the factors in policies and executive programs affecting on performance of ‎iranian knowledge based firms (kbfs). in recent years, creation and improving performance of ‎kbfs are increasingly considered by policymakers and executive managers. kbfs are often ‎considered as a desirable vehicle for transferring knowledge & technologies and also, ‎commercialization of university results. to move the research along, we examine the policies and ‎documents of some countries, study related papers and books, conducted semi-structured in-depth ‎interviews and delphi technique to highlights factors and related criteria in policies and executive ‎programs affecting the performance of kbfs. we find set of factors including institutional, ‎financial, market, cultural, human, networking, informational, social-environment, geographical- ‎environment, international relations and physical infrastructure factors that exist in policies and ‎executive programs that affecting kbfs performance. furthermore, we synthesize findings from ‎these results to a model. the factors and their related criteria and the final version model of this ‎study adopted with iran conditions, so it can be useful for policy-makers, academics, strategists and ‎planners in the field of knowledge based firms.‎