Study of the Effect of Social Capital on Innovation Emphasize on Mediation Role of Knowledge Management

The objective of the paper is to design, arrange, and evaluate the causal model of creativity and innovation emphasizing the mediating role of knowledge management: analyzing the relations of organizational culture and social capital with knowledge management and the relations of knowledge management with creativity and innovation in educational offices staff in Kurdistan Province. All staff of the educational offices is the population of the sampling in the study from which we selected a sample of 275 practitioners using class-random method. In order to measure the variables, we used some questionnaires including organizational culture, social capital, knowledge management, creativity, and innovation, the results of the study indicate that organizational culture variable, at a level of 0.01, have a significant positive impact on social capital and knowledge management variables. Variables organizational culture and social capital have the significant positive impact on knowledge management, at 0.01. Knowledge management variable have the significant positive impact, at 0.01, on creativity and innovation variables. Creativity variable have the same impact at the same level on innovation variable. Creativity and innovation model emphasizing the mediating role of Knowledge management variable, have a proper fitting.