Developing a model for innovation assessment in Iranian steel industry

Abstract

Nowadays, technology is recognized as an ability of new behavior, product and strategy for individual and companies in the economic cycle. Meanwhile, the role of innovation in creating new technology is headed. Scientific and industrial communities have come to the conclusion that organizations can achieve a competitive advantage while focus on innovation. Innovation capabilities as a scientific term is expressed in recent years, that is infrastructure for capability which includes a set of related capabilities that applying new products and their valued.Evaluating innovation capabilities can be helpful in investment and resource allocation.Assessment of innovation capabilities can provides analysis of the situation and potential of firm, and then compare it with the state of competitors, it can help them to take a strategic decisions. In other words, without the benefit of a level of innovation capabilities, innovation is not possible (product/ service or process innovation). In this study we try to assessing the innovation capability of Steel Company, we investigate innovation capability in various aspects and finally determine the extent of the gap in each dimension.