INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS OF SUPPORTIVE POLICIES FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED FIRMS WITH THE EMPHASIS ON THE MARKET INEQUALITY

Abstract

Many researchers have identified innovation as the key to develop countries and encourage governments to support knowledge-based firms (TBF). In Iran, organizations such as the National Innovation Fund, the Vice Chancellor for Science and Technology and Science and Technology Parks have provided support to these firms. In contrast, some researchers and policymakers have called these supportive policies ineffective and have cited changes in the market equilibrium, rent-seeking, and added the fact that some supported firms are not knowledge-based. In this research, first, the supportive policies have been studied by documentary method and then, by conducting a survey, the effects of these policies on the development of these firms have been studied. The results explain the positive and negative effects of these policies on firms and market formation. The results show that the type of provided support has a significant effect on the inequality in the use of market opportunities by knowledge-based firms and other firms. Also, the government support structure has led to improper implementation of related supportive policies.