مجله مدیریت نوآوری
سال سوم شماره 4 (پیاپی 10، زمستان 1393)

Nowadays, considering complex technologies, companies are no longer capable of developing innovative products and services by themselves. Thus, cooperation between companies in terms of innovation in products and technology has become an important issue. Accordingly, organizations and corporations have paid more attention to networking with the aim of innovation, as a form of collaboration. However, the formation of these networks requires factors that pave the way to form this mode of cooperation. The current study is conducted with the aim of identification of factors affecting the formation of innovation networks in knowledge-based firms in terms of effectiveness of each factor. Research methodology of this study includes field study and correlation. The results analyzed by SPSS software and Exploratory Factor Analysis. The study classifies effective factors on formation of innovation networks in four categories: communication, cooperation development, internal capabilities and Facilitators. The results also suggest significant role of variables such as specialists, regulations and their appropriate implementation, companies getting to know the activities of other companies, existence of knowledge base and trust.

In recent decades, several researches and studies have been conducted on regional innovation development. Most studies have used qualitative research methodologies and done in form of case studies. Hence, this paper has tried to investigate the findings of related qualitative studies systematically; based on the identified themes; the authors analyzed the reasons and contexts of the regional innovation models. There is no similar study about the topic in regional innovation models. In this study, the authors investigated 300 papers from Sage and Scopus databases dated from 1990 to 2013 and finally after two screenings from related papers, 48 papers were identified as high and average quality papers for deep analysis. Thereafter, authors identified three themes and related sub-themes according to the findings from meta-synthesis method, based on open coding method for paper analysis. The main themes are 1) the level of regional development especially in institutional section, 2) the decrease of governmental roles in industries and firms and 3) globalization and the increase of international relations. Also there are several sub-themes for the themes used for analysis. Moreover, based on the analysis, the regions were categorized in three clusters related to their innovation levels. Early innovators, transitional innovators and advanced innovators are three regional model categories that are useful for policy makers to make better decisions. Finally, some suggestions have been propounded for innovation development in the region of Iran based on results.

In an era, which the most significant specification is default of trust, globalization and ever-increasing changes in technology, the success of organizations are dependent upon innovative measures including employing new social patterns in interactions of employees. This issue known as social innovation shall lead to finding new solutions for needs, requirements and eventually fulfillment of organizational goals. Analyzing social innovation can promote the knowledge and recognition of organizational factors via highlighting the importance of social innovation. Accordingly, the present study was performed with the aim of examining the role of co-structural, context and content factors in the form of Three Dimensional Model in social innovation in an organization related to automotive industry. The statistical sample of the research is consisted of 130 managers, deputy heads and directors of various sectors of industry via using Chochran’s formula. The results illuminated three points. First, among main variables of this research, there is a positive and meaningful relation. Second, by comparing the three dimensional factors it turned out that co-structural, content and context factors respectively have the most impact on social innovation of the organization that is studied. Finally, the effect of these factors on social innovation processes is different in its quintet stages. Co-structural factors in execution in big scales and creating a common sense, context factors in execution in big scales and sampling and content factors in creating a common sense and execution in big scales respectively have the most and least impact.

In the past two decades, the organizational performance has become one of the most attractive topics of interest and the trends in the field of research and in applied fields has led to emergence of many innovations. This paper seeks to investigate the effect of psychological capital on the organizational performance with emphasizing on the mediating role of innovation in information technology (IT) among Branches of Bank Keshavarzi (Agriculture bank) in Tehran. In terms of objective, this study is considered as an empirical one, and the type of research methodology is descriptive-correlative. The research population includes 135 managers and employees working at Bank Keshavarzi in Tehran. Among this population, 100 individuals were selected to be in the experiment based on using Kerjeici and Morgan table through random sampling. Measurement tool in this research was a standard questionnaire that Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and Smart PLS 2 software were used for data analysis. The results show that innovation in IT mediates the relationship between psychological capital and organizational performance and there is a significant and positive relationship between psychological capital and innovation in IT. Finally some suggestions are proposed to increase innovation in IT and also to improve organizational performance.

Investigating and studying educational programs is one of the main activities of any academic discipline for self-evaluation. This article reviews previous studies about educational programs related to technology management (and related fields) to show their shortcomings, and then tries to answer four questions about technology management graduate programs –through a different way: 1) How are they geographically distributed worldwide and which schools\faculties offer these programs? 2) How program themes are linked to regions and schools\faculties? 3) What courses have the highest frequency? and 4) How courses are linked to themes and schools\faculties? The initial index for educational programs was prepared through searching the keywords in cyber; then accomplished through searching information technology management (educational) programs in 100 top universities worldwide plus other educational institutes ranked as good quality universities admired by ministry of science, research and technology of Iran. After extracting the needed data about programs, the researchers have used thematic method for titles of programs and courses and their analysis according to the initial data for answering the research questions. Research results are applicable for policy-makers, members of scientific community of technology management, and whoever that shows interest in learning technology management. Also, the Iranian IT educational programs were compared to the gained results.

The evaluation of new idea projects is one of the most challenging issues in the relationship between entrepreneurs and venture capitalists. The aim of this paper is to identify and rank important criteria used by venture capitalists in the evaluation of new idea projects. In this way, the required data is gathered by a questionnaire. The data analysis is performed using Partial Least Squares method, which is the subsidiary of Structural Equation Modeling. The results show that the financial considerations of product have the highest priority and the characters of personality and the ability of entrepreneur have the subsequent priorities. Also, among 46 basic criteria, 24 criteria have reached the final stage of analysis. Then, it is recommended that these criteria be used in the screening phase. The validation of results is done for 4 new ideas projects. The accuracy of the ranking for these projects is equal to 83 percent based on the results of this study.