The Impact of Knowledge Management to Successful Technology Transfer with Mediating of Technological and Knowledge Capability

The aim of the research is to identify technological and knowledge factors effective in designing and absorbing technology in knowledge-based centers and so manufacturing industries, in addition to survey the effect of knowledge management on each factor, via successful technology transfer. The research method is descriptive of correlation type. In this research, using a simple stochastic method,151 active people in technology transfer were selected from among 28 scientific and research group from among 4 university and 277 were selected from among 16 large production industries in industrial towns in Isfahan Province. The data for the research were collected through questionnaires. Confirmed construct and factorial analysis were used to determine the validity, and for reliability, Chronbach alpha was employed. In order to study the relationship between research variables and to study hypotheses, the modeling of structural equations has been used with the help of SPSS and AMOS software. Findings indicate that there is a positive and significant relationship between knowledge management and successful technology transfer. However, knowledge management directly affects successful technology transfer only in knowledge-based centers. Likewise, Knowledge management has the most effect on successful absorbing and transfer of technology in manufacturing industries under study through mediating variable of knowledge capability (72%) and technological capability (42%), respectively, but as a mediating variable, knowledge management has the highest impact on successful technology transfer in knowledge-based centers only through knowledge capability(31%) .