Role of Knowledge integration capability on product co-development with mediating open innovation

One of the best strategies to obtain competitive advantage and reduce the failure rate of new product development is product co-development. Knowledge-intensive organization required to receive new idea and knowledge to produce product and service according to market, because their nature based of innovation and knowledge. So this firms rely to open innovation and building collaboration network with external partners in order to access new knowledge and technologies, therefore for using the internal and external knowledge in product development process, firms should be promote its knowledge integration capability. The aim of this research is effect of knowledge integration capability on product co-development with mediating open innovation. Data has been gathered using questionnaire in 70 knowledge-intensive institutions in Guilan Science and Technology Park. Data analyze via Structural Equation Modeling (SEM)-PLS. The results showed that the KIC indirectly has positive and significantly effect on product co-development through OI but directly no effect. Moreover, KIC has positive and significantly effect on OI and, OI has positive and significantly effect on product co-development.