The Relation between Knowledge Sharing and Innovation among the Department of Extension and Rural Development Students at the College of Agriculture in Tabriz University

Knowledge sharing as one of the aspects of knowledge management can be the most important factors for success in the changing environment of today's complex, especially in knowledge-based organizations. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between knowledge sharing and innovation among the department of Extension and Rural Development of college of Agriculture in Tabriz University. it is an applied research and in terms of data collection is correlation survey. According to Morgan table, the sample of this study is 80 students of department of Extension and Rural Development of college of Agriculture and data have been collected by Dixon knowledge sharing model and innovation standardized questionnaires and data were analyzed by software spss18. Statistical Methods such as the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test statistics, Friedman test and Pearson's correlation coefficient and One-way analysis of variance)ANOVA( was used. The results show that the between sharing of knowledge and innovation in general and its variables such as ordinal knowledge sharing, sharing of explicit knowledge, tacit knowledge sharing, sharing of strategic knowledge and sharing expertise with innovation is a significant positive relationship. The sharing of knowledge among students of faculty of Agriculture is high, the level of ttendency to innovation is higher. Approaches such as the development of electronic systems, exchange of knowledge and experience by meetings and conferences, documentation of knowledge and experiences is strategies to improve knowledge and sharing of knowledge in of tabriz university faculty of Agriculture students.