The process of creating innovative enterprises in Tunisia: results of an exploratory study
This article proposes to examine the specificity of innovative companies in Tunisia especially those specialized in the technologies of information and communications (ICT) and analyze the brakes inherent in their creation. The data are from an exploratory qualitative study conducted among a sample of seventeen high-tech enterprises, located in El-Ghazala Technological Park. The choice of this sample allows us to collect qualitative information that allows us, in their turns, to identify in broad outline the specifics of these industrial structures, the profile of their creators but also the obstacles encountered during their creation stage. The results show that the main obstacles related to the creation of innovative companies in Tunisia, particularly in ICT, are institutional and financial. In this context, concrete recommendations to the Tunisian authorities can be made to improve the process of creating innovative companies and to further promote entrepreneurial culture among young graduates.