This paper aims to present the results of a research on technological innovation process with the feature of industries in developing countries including Iran.
Technological innovation characteristics were re‐conceptualised in the context of developing countries and the extent to which a firm's internal factors, its networking and its environmental factors, including national innovation system, can influence its technology innovation behaviour were examined empirically.
The results address several policy implications, which, although Iran‐specific, may nevertheless be transferable to other developing countries.
To some extent fills the current gap in the determinants of technological innovation and the essential factors for successful industrial innovation in developing countries in general and Middle Eastern countries in particular.
