The Effect of Intellectual Capital on Organizational Innovation in the Agricultural Services Ventures of Zanjan Province

Innovation is the key to organizational survival and therefore، it seems necessary to study and identify its affecting factors such as intellectual capital as one of the most important of new organizational intangible assets. Considering the importance of this issue، the main purpose of this research was to study the effect of intellectual capital on organizational innovation in the Agricultural Consulting، Technical and Engineering Services Ventures. The research was an applied research and a descriptive- correlational research in terms of goal and method of data collection، respectively. The population of the study consisted of 280 experts of the ventures in Zanjan province، Iran. A sample size of 200 was selected using a stratified sampling method. The standard questionnaires were used to collect the data. The content validity of the questionnaires was confirmed by a panel of experts. The construct validity and the reliability of the research instrument were assessed by estimating the measurement model. The results showed that the research hypotheses were confirmed and the components of intellectual capital including human، relational and structural had a positive and significant effect on the dependent variable. The components totally explained about 51 percent of the variances of organizational innovation in the ventures.