Effect of organizational trust on knowledge commercialization in knowledge-based companies

This study aimed to investigating the effect of organizational trust on knowledge commercialization in knowledge-based companies. The research method in terms of purpose is applied research and the method of data collection is descriptive and correlational. The population of the research Includes 10 knowledge-based companies in field of artificial intelligence and cloud computing which Based on the available non-random sampling, 91 employees of the companies were selected as the sample. The tools used in this study, were includes Standard Questionnaire of Organizational Trust of Elonen et al. (2008) and Standard Questionnaire of Commercialization of Danesh Sharifi et al. (2015). Content Validity of questioner was approved by the supervisor and respected experts. Reliability of questioner was approved using Cronbach's alpha and Estimated above 0.7. The data were analyzed by SPSS software. In the descriptive statistics section mean and standard deviation were used. And in the inferential statistics, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to detect the normality of the data and regression test to analyzing hypothesizes. The results showed that the components of organizational trust including vertical trust, horizontal trust and institutional trust have a significant effect on knowledge commercialization in knowledge-based companies. This relationship is significant at the alpha level of 0.05.