Priority of the Supportive and Essential Knowledge-Based Structures in the Process of Innovation in Knowledge-Based Companies

The knowledge-based companieshave been the focus of more attention due to the roles and importance they have acquired in economic progress and nationaldevelopment.To meet the missions assigned to them, they need deep and continuous innovation.Scientific innovation is no coincidence,but a planned processfor the growth and development of whichcontributing factors must be identified and managed.
The purpose of this paperis to prioritize the supportive and essential knowledge- based structures in the five process stages of innovation in knowledge-basedcompanies.
The model of Blackler et al’s knowledge-based structures in the structural categories as well as Kaufman &Fifer’s five-factor model of innovation in knowledge-based companies were selected.The statistical population includes Tehran's knowledge-based companies and the chosen sample from four groups on the basis of the current sample. The data collection meansaretwo researcher-made questionnaires the validity of which was measured based on the visual validity and the reliability of which was measured through Cronbach's alpha coefficient.
The research findings from analyzing the role and relation of knowledge-based structuressuggest the further importance of essential structures over supportive ones, and the compositional or hypertext structure was the most important one in various stagesof innovation.
The results indicated that the idea implementation management is selected as the most important step in the innovation process.Other steps in order of importance include human resource management, strategic management,idea implementation management, and creativity management.