Technological innovation has been a key factor in the survival and competitiveness of organizations in the present day. The purpose of the present study is investigating the effect of organizational intelligence on organizational creativity and presenting a conceptual model that can analyze the effect and the role of organizational intelligence and organizational creativity on the promotion of technological innovation in manufacturing firms in Fars province in Iran. This is a pioneering work in presenting a model to investigate the effect of organizational intelligence and organizational creativity on technological innovation. The statistical population is all researchers, experts and managers of five manufacturing firms whose number exceeded 1210. Through stratified sampling, a sample of 290 persons was selected for data collection. To collect the data related to organizational intelligence, Albrecht’s (2003) questionnaire, which was reduced to a 21 item scale, was employed and for technological innovation and organizational creativity, two questionnaires developed by the researchers were utilized. To investigate the relation among the variables of the research and investigating the hypotheses, the Structural Equation Modeling analysis was carried out by Lisrel8.5 and SPSS22. The results indicated that organizational intelligence has a meaningful and positive effect on technological innovation. Considering the reported R2, organizational intelligence can explain 55% of changes in organizational creativity and 45% of changes in the technological innovation. Moreover, organizational creativity can explain 40% of changes in technological innovation.

Technological innovation has been a key factor in the survival and competitiveness of organizations in the present day. The purpose of the present study is investigating the effect of organizational intelligence on organizational creativity and presenting a conceptual model that can analyze the e...