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Objective: This article examines the existing scientific research on accelerators with the aim of providing a framework for business accelerators. According, understanding the macromodel of business accelerators and understanding the relationship between contexts, processes, mechanisms, challenges and effects is an important point for all institutions related to supporting start-up businesses. Considering the importance of the role of accelerators in the success of businesses and creating innovation, and considering that internal studies in this field are very limited and few, and foreign studies are more focused on the effects of accelerators on businesses. It has been mentioned that this study has sought to find a comprehensive framework of different dimensions for accelerators. Method: The research method is qualitative-documentary in terms of developmental goal. The technique of metacomposition-expert panel was used to extract the categories and provide the framework. This method is based on a systematic review of library studies to achieve a detailed understanding of the studied phenomenon. Since many studies have been conducted in the field of accelerators and growth centers and most of the researches have been conducted in the field of qualitative research methods, in the systematic literature review, articles on accelerators based on strategic focus and organizational plan, all kinds of accelerators and others have been done. But so far, a complete research of different landscapes has not been done, therefore meta- composite method is a suitable method for designing the framework because meta-composite provides the possibility for the researcher to use the findings extracted from related qualitative studies in a structured manner. Use with research topic. The research population was 54 valid scientific articles between 2011 and 2023. After extracting the primary codes, central codes and selected codes, an expert panel consisting of three experts was formed to examine the primary codes and categories and then propose a conceptual framework of the categories. Results: The researchers started by running a test search in order to create a search strategy and identify search terms. The researchers' search strategy included searching for multiple terms in the title, abstract, and keywords of the sources. The researchers limited the search to publications in English and sources belonging to one of the categories of web-of-science. 580 sources were found in this search. The abstracts of these sources were reviewed according to the exclusion criteria. Each source was evaluated by two authors. The result of initial screening was 37 eligible sources. In the second screening, 13 articles were added again, and after the second data extraction, two sources were removed due to the lack of suitable content, and finally, in the last update of the sources, 6 sources were added, and finally 54 sources for data extraction. was investigated. By identifying 166 primary codes from the articles, 14 central codes were obtained, and these themes were divided into ten themes, including support strategy, infrastructure, types of accelerators, accelerator context, interventions, proposed value of business accelerators, and accelerator challenges. results of accelerators, the mechanism, the design of the accelerator program, were presented, and then an expert panel consisting of three experts in the field of entrepreneurship was formed in 3 two-hour sessions to confirm, localize the codes, and also provide the framework. In these meetings, some categories such as the proposed value of business accelerators were removed, and some codes were modified and some were merged. Finally, the output of expert meetings was in the form of presenting a framework of business accelerators. Conclusion: This research has provided a comprehensive framework for business accelerators so that researchers and managers active in the field of start-up businesses can follow a summary of the studies conducted in this field and learn about its shortcomings and areas for improvement. Based on the research gaps, the researchers have provided useful directions for future research to examine the development patterns of this new and emerging field. First, future research should focus on the way in which different accelerators select startups. Because one of the main features of accelerators is supporting a group of businesses, and understanding how to group and select businesses is an area that has ambiguity. Second, another important research path that needs more research is how to link the design elements of business accelerators, support strategies and results and outputs of accelerators, that is, paying attention to how accelerator design shapes their results and outputs. The third path refers to how the ecosystem and accelerators interact, how the ecosystem makes a difference in the support strategies, design process and outcomes of the accelerators. The fourth path is paying special attention to modeling for different types of business accelerators, which means that each type of accelerator has a relationship with supporting strategies, design process and results. The fifth research path is to investigate how infrastructures and challenges affect the design process and acceleration mechanism. The sixth research path goes back to the post-acceleration era of businesses, the scientific literature regarding the state of businesses in the post-acceleration era is ambiguous and requires more detailed studies and modeling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
