Design and Analysis of a Model for the Affecting of the Organizational, Group and Individual Factors in Innovation Promotion in Research &Technological Organizations

This paper is a field research attempt aimed at the “Design and Analysis of a model affecting organizational، group and individual factors in Innovation Promotion in Research &Technological organizations of Iran.” The research results show that the organizational and group and individual factors Affects the Innovation Promotion in the Research &Technological organizations. This study tries to present and examine a model which can reflect the impact of the internal factors on Innovation Promotion in industrial organizations، and as well as to evaluate، the effectiveness of each organizational، individual and group factors and their components on the Innovation Promotion in the Research organizations. The statistical society of the research includes the Research &Technological organizations of Iran in which Homogeneous research centers and 312 managers and researchers have been chosen based on the “Known Group” sampling method. This study used survey research methodology and its tools are also questionnaires. The reliability of the survey has been calculated using Cranach''s Alpha method which is equal to 0. 928. To analyze the data، it was necessary to first evaluate the credibility of the theoretical model through LISREL software. The results verify that the model is acceptable for the statistical society. The calculated path coefficients also show that the organizational factors (includes structure، learning، leadership، strategy، reward system، employees’ participation components)، group factors (includes communication، combining، Cohesiveness، size of the group components) and Individual factors (includes individual skills and abilities، personality characteristics، motivation components) have a strong relationship with the encouragement of innovation and have a positive effect.