A Study of the Organizational Intelligence Effect on Technological Innovation in Knowledge-Based Enterprises

Technological innovations, as a respond to the pressures of external environment, originating from the mental forces of company or enterprises that today was, discussed in the term of organizational intelligence. Prior research had paid attention to the effect of organizational intelligence on technological innovation. Based on this, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of organizational intelligence on technological innovation in knowledge - based enterprises. For this purpose, 93 employees of enterprises, in Fars Science and Technology Park (FSTP), were studied and data were gathered. Finally, the structural equation modeling with partial least square was used to examine the hypotheses. Results show that, organizational intelligence has a positive and significant effect on technological innovation. Also, it was determined that, strategic vision, alignment and common fate, respectively have more positive effect on technological innovation. As a general conclusion, increase in organizational intelligence lead to technological innovation in knowledge - based enterprises.