مجله مدیریت نوآوری
سال دوم شماره 3 (پیاپی 5، پاییز 1392)

In the last decade the policy of development of industrial cluster as a relatively new approach in Iranian local and national economic development has been considered by policy makers and researchers. Development of industrial cluster can be evaluated from different aspects including: knowledge and technology, financial and investment, innovation and entrepreneurship. In this study, different kinds of innovations and existent conditions, targets and limitations are identified through studying the formation of innovation in production sector of Yazd textile industrial cluster. The nature of this study is descriptive – analytical, which has been implemented as a field investigation method. In order to evaluate the innovation indicators, the OECD approach has been used. The population of study consisted of Yazd textile manufacturing firms each having at least 10 employees as workforce. The data in research is gathered through field study and from 51 production companies in Yazd textile industry from 2009 to 2011. The outcome shows that the general states of innovation activities and cooperation is not desirable while “market conditions and not request for innovation and lack of collaboration culture” can be introduced as the main reason of this undesirability. In other words, innovation is not a clear indicator of the development and competitiveness of the textile enterprises in Yazd. By contrast, expenditure and revenue factors have been the main objective of innovation creation.

Nowadays Pharmaceutical industry is considered as one of the strategic and knowledge based industries with high rate of innovation. According to the huge market, high R&D investment and increasing rate of change, Pharmaceutical firms should increase their product innovations through the improvement of their dynamic capabilities based on understanding and responding to the transient opportunities of competitive market and technology. In this paper, we tried to present a model to improve the rate of product innovation in Iranian Pharmaceutical firms focusing on dynamic capabilities effects. After designing the conceptual model and analyzing data gathered from 60 pharmaceutical firms, direction and intensity of the relations among latent variables were investigated by PLS. The results show that dynamic capabilities have considerable effects on innovation capabilities of pharmaceutical firms including quality, market share and differentiation of new products.

Nowadays, the advent of technological businesses and formation of knowledge-based economy has increased demand for technology pricing. Although numerous methods have been proposed for technology pricing, they have bugs and limitations which effect their applications in certain conditions. Current study carried out to present a selecting method for technology pricing in various projects, to this aim the effective indicators of selecting method were scored based on: nature of technology, internal policies and external interactions. In first part of the study, the literature review and related concepts in domain of technology pricing are presented and four methods of technology pricing which most widely used in theory and practice have been comprehensively studied. Consequently, research methodology and model indicators have been introduced and scored via Fuzzy Delphi Analytic Hierarchy and then the appropriate method for technology pricing was recognized in various conditions. Finally, the results of the model have been analyzed and used in the real case.

When there is a need for different skills, experiences and expertise to achieve an aim, “teaming” will be formed in an organization, which consequently leads to innovation in organizations by generating new capabilities through combination of realities and different viewpoints. The purpose of research was to investigate and analyze the impact of behaviors of successful teaming on perceived organizational innovation by staffs in Isfahan Railway Headquarters. Based on research model, the impact of behaviors of successful teaming was analyzed and studied in five dimensions namely, speaking up, experimenting, reflecting, intently listening and integrating on perceived organizational innovation by persons. This survey is applied and descriptive in nature while questionnaire used as data collection tool. The population of study consisted of staffs in Isfahan Railway Headquarters equal to 538 personnels in which a sample of 224 selected by random sampling method. To test assumptions and the competency of the model, the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) and Partial Least Squares (PLS) used. The findings show that there is only meaningful and positive relationship between “organizational innovation” and “integrating” amongst components of successful teaming.

The innovation system studies is facing issues such as application of concepts and theories of the field due to lack of precise theorizing. Innovation system studies used systematic approach to solve the problems of its own, but it benefited less from the new system approaches. By taking into account the broad and narrow approaches in innovation system studies in present paper, the researchers review the weakness points of each approach too. The main goal is to provide a solution to resolve the shortcomings in innovation system studies using the new approach in systems and recent debates in systematic sociology; which proposed as holonic inter-system analysis conceptual framework. The qualitative research methodology is using the holistic approach to validate the conceptual framework. The holistic approach is one of the issues raised in the innovation system, which used to analyze financing innovation in order to show strengths of new analysis in contrast to other frameworks. The findings show that by using the concept of function for the system boundary and mediator holon, there is possible to have a more precise perception to relationship between the financial and innovation system; resulting in less systematic errors in policy makings. Base on the framework risk coverage such as insurance services in the financial system to promote functions of innovation system and policymaking institutions like central banks and stock market organizations should be examined as a new sector in the field. This conceptual framework provides a more comprehensive analysis than the previous frameworks.

Nowadays, innovation and organizational agility are competitive advantages and Knowledge Management is one of the most important tools for creating competitive advantages; meanwhile, having clear strategy is one of the ways to achieve prosperity in knowledge management. Also, storytelling is presented as a simple and guaranteed tool for KM implementation. Therefore, this research has been done to present a Conceptual Strategic Model for Storytelling in Knowledge Management in two basic stages and in seven steps. The presented model has been suggested the following stages by concentrating on “People”, “Process” and “Technology”: The first stage, “Philosophy and Theoretical Fundamental Step”, has one single step “analyze organizational mission, vision and strategy”, from storytelling in knowledge management point of view. In this stage, the optimum organizational mission, vision and strategy have been determined based on effective elements. The second stage, “Executive steps” consisted of six steps that is commenced with “Status Quo Analyzing” from intra, inter and extra organizational point of view in which by “Determine Favor Status” step, “Selecting And Developing - Storytelling in KM Solution” has been appointed. At the end of this process by “Selecting the optimum storytelling in knowledge management strategy”, the strategy has been implemented and improved by the use of comprehensive feedback. Consequently, the proposed model has been evaluated by survey research using experts’ opinions (in strategic and knowledge management scopes) by purposeful sampling and snowball technique in an online survey. Based on statistical analyses the proposed model has been accepted by a certainty of 95%. Also, Friedman Test shows the layers of model have been homogenous with a certainty of 95%.