Under the US sanctions agains t Islamic Republic of Iran, there needs to be paid more
attention to knowledge-based companies and help promotion of their capabilities with the
aim of putting an end to the sale of natural resources and moving toward "knowledge-based
manufacturing". In other words, the path toward success in "economic Jihad" and "resilient
economy" passes through the medium of knowledge-based entrepreneurship. This qualitative
work has been carried out with the ultimate goal of research into knowledge-based
entrepreneurship within the conceptual framework of resilient economy. We collected a
total of 1280 themes through a codified procedure after open interviews with 15 university
professors of management and economy and 10 entrepreneurs, managing directors of
knowledge-based companies, and related government officials, who were briefed on such
concepts as resilient economy. Then, 60 themes from among the total 1280 themes were
selected through a codification paradigm for determining the following subjects: causal
conditions (economic fight), phenomenal centrality (motifs for making knowledge-based
economy resilient), reciprocal actions and interactions’ s trategies (knowledge-based entrepreneurship),
infras tructure (es tablishing economic war room), … as well as a scientific
and knowledge-based approach toward all aspects and s tages of entrepreneurship, intervening
conditions (Leader’s recommendations on economy and entrepreneurship), domes tic
agents’ inefficient and inappropriate performance, outcomes of knowledge-based entrepreneurship < br />(boos ting non-oil economy, boos ting national production, resilient economy, antisanctions
economy, …), and Islamic economy as a pattern for inspiring world economy. In
continuation and at the s tage of selective codification, the elements of codification paradigm
were explained one by one to set the plot of the s tory and create the theory.