Designing Knowledge Transfer Model to Improve Innovation Process of products of Defense industrial organizations

Knowledge Transfer, as a process of KM, is of importance in organizations where rapid transfer of correct, appropriate and prompt information and accuracy in product innovation processes plays a vital role. Selecting appropriate methods to transfer knowledge, in a complex environment, affects organization's development, promotion and its competitive advantages. Innovation, a key topic, can speed up in defense organizations by means of knowledge based methods. This is an applied developmental study which, first, reviews recent concepts in knowledge sharing and transfer, then applies the concepts to innovation processes to determine the main purpose of the research, designing knowledge transfer model to improve innovation process of products of defense industrial organizations. This is a case- field study done by using a questionnaire which was validated by confirmatory factor analysis and its reliability measured by Cronbach's Alpha. One sample Ttest was applied to confirm the effect of knowledge transfer on products innovation processes. The results of the study determine the effects of knowledge transfer dimensions, components and indicators on improvement of innovation processes in the products of defense industrial organizations. The mostly effective indicators were used to design the main model.