Studying The effect of technology intelligence on the Innovation performance of firms with emphasis on the role of mediatorvariable open innovation: case study Knowledge-based companies

This research has been written by aim of investigating effect of technology intelligence on innovative performanceof firms with regard to open innovation mediator role. Generally in this research, fourth period data of iran rewardfor management of technology and innovation in order to model evaluation has been used. In other word, technologyoriented small companies have been investigated. the research method in this paper in terms of gathering data isdescriptive - correlation and based on objective, is Practical. In order to analyzing date, modelling structuralequations and confirmation factor analyzing techniques by using PLS software have been used. Findings suggestthat there is a positive and meaningful effect of technology intelligence on open innovation. Also data analyzingshow that technology intelligence and open innovation have significant effect on firms Innovation performance andopen innovation play mediator role in this trend.

Keywords:

technology intelligence , open innovation , firm innovation performance