Affecting Factors on the Policy Innovation Capability of Active Public and Private Companies in the Food Industries with Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) Approach

Innovation capability refers to a complete set of characteristics of the organization that facilitates innovation strategies, and Food industries are one of the most important branches of national economy in every country.

this research, with purpose of determinating the affecting factors on the policy innovation capability of public and private companies in the field of food industry of Urmia is to identify and categorize the components by analytical approach. This research is an applied research.

The present research is descriptive-analytical in terms of data collection and field in terms of method. The statistical population of the research is 221 and Sample size with Cochran formula was 143 government and Private companies.The research instrument was a questionnaire whose its content validity and its reliability was coefficient.

The results of the sample fit test were based on the Bartlet index and the adequacy of the sample was 0.891, and the coefficient of aggregate extraction for all dimensions was more than 0.5 and the percentage of variance explained by the effective factors was 60.340%.

The factors influencing innovation capability accordingly is categorized into three components: production, process and administrative innovation.