Nasrin Barforoush - PhD Student, School of Management, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan
Naser Khani - Management of Najaf Abad Azad University, Najaf Abad, Iran

Innovation management is the process that encompasses the whole range of decisions, activities and measures in order to facilitate the transfer of an idea into the business value. This process can be applied for all kind of ideas, whether it is about a product, process or a service. The focus of the Innovation Management is to provide the set of measures and tools which will facilitate the inventors to respond to the challenges in the whole innovation cycle and to turn their ideas into successful innovations on the market. As stated in the European Planning Studies (AutioErkko, 1998) the innovation system includes three main elements: the knowledge generation sub-system, the knowledge application sub-system and the linkages between these two sub-systems. One the main goals of this paper is to develop the University Innovation Platform that will define the priority research areas universities and present the potential for research and knowledge capitalization, one of the priorities is to develop the collaborative efficient tool for innovation management. To reach this aim we use questionnaire and expert ideas.

innovation, Competitive advantage, knowledge management