مجله مدیریت نوآوری
سال سوم شماره 1 (پیاپی 7، بهار 1393)

Nowadays, the innovational performance is one of the key factors of knowledge-based organizations’ survival issue. Innovations in performance lead organizations to maintain competitive advantage and organizational development. Creating an innovational performance needs an effective and sustainable communication with all stakeholders and public environment in organization. Social capital is a kind of capital that facilitates the access to information and vital resources in order to improve environmental performance while takes advantage of environmental opportunities. This research seeks to develop a systematic framework about social capital, mediator role of knowledge transfer and innovational performance in Iranian knowledge based organizations while tries to broaden the frontiers of knowledge in this area. This survey is an applied research based on its very aim. The data gathered through random sampling method from Information Technology knowledge based organizations in Iran by questionnaire. Structural Equation Modeling used to analyze the data by the help of SmartPLS software. The results indicate that social capital and knowledge transfer have impact on innovational performance in Iranian knowledge based organizations. In addition, the mediator role of knowledge transfer in impressing social capital and innovational performance in Iranian knowledge base organizations is confirmed.

Iran’s helicopter industry having decades of experience and appropriate internal market is one of the most attractive investment sections in national level bringing employment and development for other industries. The very aim of this research is to identify and analyze factors affecting the formation and development of innovative civil helicopter industry cluster. By reviewing the literature, in the field of industrial clusters and sectoral innovation system, authors categorized the affected factors in a primary model. Then by conducting interviews with 20 science and technology policy makers and helicopter industry experts, the model localized and revised. The revised model tested by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and path analysis methods by taking the questionnaires answered by 404 statistical populations into account. The results shows that the economical and market related factors; scientific and technological factors; and political and human factors affect the formation and development of civil helicopter industry cluster in Iran.

Innovation is a paramount factor for nations towards wealth and development. Countries make and perform special policies for innovation development. One of the solutions to develop innovation is innovation networks approach. These networks are based on cooperation and learning. In last decade, there was a major trend in self-organization and learning networks in studies; but there is not enough evidence for such surveys in Iran. This survey research aimed to study Ahwaz Science and Technology Park innovation network while gets help from a questionnaire tool. By doing interviews with 11 experts, the questionnaire validated and distributed to 25 companies reside in the park. To analyze data, path analysis via regression tested by the help of windows SPSS software. Based on the results, different factors such as corporations enabling, networks embeddedness, and suitable environment have different effects on cooperation, self-organization and learning of innovation networks. In addition, these factors have different effects on innovation development and network efficiency.

The technological Innovation Imperativeness and importance of the development of advanced technologies such as aviation industry technologies have made the identifying necessary factors and contexts for creation of innovation capabilities, as a strategic process. In this research, the effective factors in creating and reinforcement of the innovation capabilities has been identified and ranked while the influence of these factors on varieties of achieved innovations in one of the research centers in Iran's aviation industry has been investigated. Finally some solutions to enhance these capabilities are suggested. To do so, primarily through library researches, the effective factors in innovation and innovation capabilities identified and classified into four main groups. In the next step, data were collected by using of designed questionnaire and were analyzed by utilizing of correlation, Friedman and regression tests which indicated that the network cooperation and interactions had the greatest positive effect on innovation capabilities in the research center. In addition, the other factors influences are respectively technological efforts, managerial features and characteristics of human resources. Meanwhile, priority of obtained innovations as results of innovation capabilities respectively determined as product innovation, organizational innovation and process innovation. Moreover, technological efforts identified as the most important factor in creation of product innovation while managerial features believed as the most important factor in organizational and process innovation.

Many researches on impact of emotional intelligence carried out on different variables in past decade while their focus was only on organizational learning as an important factor for adaptability to the environment, but there is a lack of research on the relationship between three variables: emotional intelligence, organizational learning and organizational culture. This research has started to investigate the mediating role of cooperative culture in the relationship between emotional intelligence and organizational learning in a governmental organization. To this end, a conceptual model designed based on library research meanwhile the quantitative approach was adopted for study. To gather data, researchers distributed a questionnaire to 120 participants whom were selected randomly in the organization and were asked to express their viewpoints about so-called variables. The gathered data were analyzed through Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) using LISREL 8.8. Results indicate that emotional intelligence has not any direct effect on organizational learning, but has indirect meaningful and positive effect through organizational culture. In addition, this research introduces a new conceptual model concerning the impact of emotional intelligence on organizational learning through cooperative culture.

This paper is focused on a systematic review of definitions in management of technology literature and related concepts such as aims and processes of management of technology. Reviews show that there is not an integrated definition for researchers in this field, so it is necessary to propose an integrated definition for technology management. In this research, to identify the researchers’ approaches, we have used a quantitative content analysis method for different technology management definitions. Also to compute the redundancy of words NVIVO software and for clustering different definitions QDA miner software have been used. According to the results, clustering different definitions of technology management indicates that at least there are three main approaches: 1. Goal oriented definitions 2. Nature based definitions and 3. Process oriented definitions. Finally, after analyzing the content of gathered definitions, this article proposed a new and proper definition for management of technology.