Relationship between knowledge management and Innovation: Case study of Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center in Kermanshah Province

The Propose of this research is to investigate relationship between knowledge management and innovation in Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Center personnel in Kermanshah Province. The nature of this research is applied, implemented by cause-correlational method. Statistical population is consisted of all agricultural research center personnel in Kermanshah province (N=60). The instrument for data collection in this research was structured and pretested questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was determined by the expert group and its reliability was calculated by using Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α= 0.87). Using census, the questionnaire was sent to the statistical population of which 52 questionnaires were completed and returned. Data analyzed by SPSSWin18. Results from Pearson correlation coefficients showed that there was positive relation between knowledge management and its triple components with employee's innovation at P=0.01 is significant and positive. Also, path analysis results showed that the variable, knowledge style had the highest effect (55.1%), and the variable of responsiveness to knowledge had the least effect (24.3%) on innovation. Totally, the independent variables of research explained 42.6% of variance in the dependent variable.