Effect of Intellectual Capital on the Organizational Innovation of the Employees in the Ministry of Sport and Youth

The research is to assess the influence of intellectual capital (human capital, structural capital, and communication capital) on the innovation of staffs in the Ministry of Sport and Youth of Iran. The research methodology is applied descriptively. The population included all of the staffs of Ministry of Sport and Youth (772 people). According to Morgan's table, 260 people were selected through method of stratified random sampling. The research tools included standard questionnaire of intellectual capital (Bontis et al., 2000) and questionnaire of organizational innovation (Sa'atchi et al., 1389). Their reliability was determined as 89/9 and 0/093, and the content validity was confirmed by the professors of sports management. To assess the relationship between variables, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and to evaluate the causal link between variables, the model of structural equations by Spss and Lisrel software was used.The results showed that human capital, structural capital and communication capital are of positive significant influence on organizational innovation in Ministry of Sport and Youth. According to values of factor loads, it has been observed that human capital is of largest influence on organizational innovation. Finally, it can be mentioned that the organizations which have high levels of intellectual capital accelerate organizational innovation through inspired new knowledge and ideas and increased cognition abilities and using them. This type of intellectual capital will create major innovations in new services and processes by creating new competitive opportunities, as well as the use of new knowledge and technologies.