Governmental origin: why NTBFs grow in a transitional economy

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Table 1. The studies on the factors affecting the development of new technology-based firms (self-compilation).

Row	Aspect	component	Resources	Row	Aspect	component	Resources
1	Features of the entrepreneur	Family history Social marginal issues Practical skills Education Age Former failure in business	(Fadahunsi, 2012)	5	Technological capability	Tacit knowledge On the job training Variety	(Wilbon, 1999)
2	Features of firm/organisation	Age Field of working Legal structure Size	(Fadahunsi, 2012; Sutton, 1996) (Sutton, 1996)	6	Market structure	Market orientations Price adaptation	( Chorev & Anderson, 2006; Licht & Nerlinger, 1998)
3	Marketing capability	Planning Providing new products Employing capable individuals Training the work force The amount of competition Using consultation Marketing strategy Technical resources	(Chorev & Anderson, 2006; Licht & Nerlinger, 1998; Becchetti & Trovato, 2002)	7	Providing resources	Having access to the educated man force	(Fadahunsi, 2012; McGee, 1994)
						Having access to financial resources
				8	Generating and updating knowledge	Type of generated knowledge
						Number of R&D projects
						Management of knowledge
4	Organisational capability and production	Innovation Providing new product	(McGee,1994; Fadahunsi, 2012)	9	Laws	Laws of intellectual property	(Becchetti & Trovato, 2002)

Figure 1. Iranian economic growth after Washington Consensus in comparison with other similar oil-producing countries (The World Development Indicator, 2018).

Figure 2. Paradigm model of Strauss and Corbin (Corbin & Strauss, 2008).

Figure 3. Extracted paradigm model according to grounded theory for the growth of technology-based firms in Iran (self compilation).

Figure 4. Identified configuration in achieving growth (self compilation).

Table 2. Values of consistency and coverage, for the results obtained from comparative, qualitative analysis.

	Raw coverage	Consistency
Firms with governmental origins	0.67514	1.00000
Private firms	0.483748	1.00000

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