Motivational and Legal Barriers of Entrepreneurship Development

Abstract

Nowadays, entrepreneurship is considered as an effective strategy and a milestone in multi-lateral development of countries. Preparing backgrounds for developing entrepreneurship requires presenting entrepreneurial teachings and skills on one hand and necessitates understanding and removing its obstacles and challenges as well as establishing appropriate backgrounds for developing entrepreneurial trade on the other hand. In this paper, the viewpoints of those researchers who had participated in National Conference on Entrepreneurship Management and Regional Development (Ilam University, 2009) had been analyzed and interpreted in comparison with legal and motivational obstacles and barriers effective on the development of entrepreneurship by making use of survey method and questionnaire as well. The results show that according to the researchers' viewpoint, the legal and motivational factors had terminated the development of entrepreneurship in Iran. Moreover, financial risk factor and the fear aroused from inability in management of the business were the first and last factors among motivational factors. In addition, the bank regulations and laws factor (banking interest rate, the required documents and conditions for receiving banking facilities) and the environmental rules and regulations were the first and last legal factors effective and influential in the failure of entrepreneurship development in Iran. Generally, entrepreneurship researchers are of opinion that the motivational factors are more important than legal factors in the failure of entrepreneurship development in Iran.