Fatemeh Salehi
Mohammad Mehdi Sepehri
Babak Teimurpur

This paper investigates the network facing small-to-medium sized enterprises in the Iranian nanotechnology arena. It demonstrates the networks that can be constructed from the strategic partnerships between actor ftrms, and unveils these links using semi-structured interviews with managers of Iranian nanotech SMEs. By applying social network theory on the data gathered, important pictures of the network are drawn; salient actors are identified and main characteristics of the network are discussed.

Business networks; Nanotech; SME; Social Network Analysis; Centrality