A model for institutionalizing innovation management among faculty members of Islamic Azad universities Case: Azad University, Research Sciences Branch, Tehran

This research is conducted to provide a model for institutionalizing innovation management in education for universities and higher education institutions of the country. For this purpose, based on the research literature, a list of dimensions and components of innovation management in the field of education of Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, has been prepared. The present study has been quantitative and qualitative in terms of data type and in terms of collecting data has been descriptive survey. In the quantitative section, a sample of 285 faculty members was selected through random-stratified sampling method from the faculty members of Islamic Azad University, Tehran Research and Science Branch. According to the official statistics of Islamic Azad University, 1100 students were in the academic year 2018-2019. A researcher-made questionnaire was used to collect data. The formal validity of the questionnaires was investigated and confirmed by the experimental implementation and judgment of experts, and the construct validity through factor analysis. The reliability of the questionnaire was also calculated by Cronbach's alpha coefficient (89.0). To analyze the data, SPSS and AMOS software was used and to provide the final model of the research, modeling of measuring was used and for fitting model in the structural equation modeling technique, statistical tests including exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis and Kendall's tau test were used. The following results were obtained and 9 dimensions, 40 components and 50 indicators were extracted.