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Purpose: comprehensive quality management is the art of managing the entire complex for accomplishing the best outcome. Thus, the present research was done to identify the dimensions and elements of comprehensive quality management at Islamic Azad University. Methodology: The present research was an applied research of qualitative type. The research population consisted of experts in comprehensive quality management and evaluation at Tehran City; according to the principle of theoretical saturation, the sample size was estimated 12 individuals, chosen through snowball and purposive sampling methods. The research instrument was a semi-in-depth interview whose validity was confirmed through triangulation method, and its reliability, via interrater consistency coefficient, was estimated above 0.71. The data were analyzed through coding method in MAXQDA-2018 Software. Findings: The coding results suggested that comprehensive quality management at Islamic Azad University had three dimensions of internal, external, and academic quality development along with service assessment. The internal dimension included elements of leadership, curricula planning, the staff competence level, competent faculty members, assessment quality, quality of the physical atmosphere, educational equity, information technology quality, feedback on performance, the students’ competence level as well as the curriculum. The external dimension included cultural, social, economic, geographical – environmental elements. Finally, the dimension of academic quality and service assessment included elements of commercialization, skills, economic development, responsivity, value creation, as well as development of academic quality and service assessment. Conclusion: considering the dimensions and elements identified for comprehensive quality management at Islamic Azad University, the ground could be provided for accomplishing comprehensive quality management as well as achieving useful and excellent outcomes.

Purpose: The cities of the world are becoming centers of innovation, and today the technological entrepreneurship ecosystem is very important. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigating the relationship of technological entrepreneurship ecosystem and crowd funding according to Isenberg's model. Methodology: In a descriptive-analytical study from type of correlation, 225 people from middle and senior managers and experts in the field of investment were selected as a sample based on Cochran's formula by simple random sampling method. The samples responded to the standard questionnaires of technological entrepreneurship ecosystem (Isenberg, 2011) and crowd funding (Shabanian, 2012), whose validity and reliability were confirmed. Data were analyzed with Pearson correlation coefficients and linear regression tests in SPSS24 software. Findings: The findings showed that all six components of the technological entrepreneurship ecosystem including policy, financing, culture, supports, human capital, and markets had a positive and significant correlation with all four components of crowd funding including the type, role, goals, and scope of crowd funding. Also, the components of technological entrepreneurship ecosystem could significantly explain 62.7% of crowd funding changes, which according to the beta value, the variables of policy, human capital, culture, markets, financing and supports had a direct and significant effect on crowd funding (P<0.001). Conclusion: The results indicated the relation and effective role of technological entrepreneurship ecosystem in crowd funding. Therefore, for the improvement of crowd funding can be provided the ground for the promotion of the technological entrepreneurship ecosystem.