Presenting a model of the impact of technology management on knowledge commercialization in Islamic Azad universities of Mazandaran province

The present age is the age of dramatic and fundamental changes in innovations and technologies and is an important and vital factor for organizations in order to create sustainable value and competitive advantage. The overall purpose of this study was the effect of technology management on knowledge commercialization in Islamic Azad universities of Mazandaran province. In terms of purpose, this research is an application that was conducted with a mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative) with an exploratory design. The statistical population in the qualitative section was 20 experts in the field of research and in the quantitative section, the faculty members of the Islamic Azad University of Mazandaran Province amounted to 1537 people. 10 people and in the quantitative part according to Cochran's formula, 308 people were selected stratified random sampling method. A researcher-made technology management questionnaire with 41 questions and a knowledge commercialization questionnaire with 30 questions were used. Confirmatory test using SPSS and PLS software was used to analyze the data. The results showed that there is a relationship between the exogenous variable of technology management and the latent variable of endogenous knowledge commercialization based on the path load coefficients of factor 0.458, also considering the t-value for this relationship (10.976) which is out of range (58 / 2 and 58 / 2-) is at 99% confidence level The impact of technology management on knowledge commercialization has become significant, so it can be concluded that technology management has a positive and significant effect on knowledge commercialization.