%0 Journal Article %T Reviewing and Rating Factors Affecting the Mechanism of Open Innovation Approach in Iran's Aviation Industry %J Innovation Management Journal %I Iranian Association for Management of Technology %Z 2322-5386 %A Khosropour, Hosein %A Feizi, Kamran %A Tabaian, Seyed Kamal %D 2014 %\ 03/01/2014 %V 2 %N 4 %P 1-26 %! Reviewing and Rating Factors Affecting the Mechanism of Open Innovation Approach in Iran's Aviation Industry %K Open Innovation %K Mechanism of Open Innovation %K Networking %K absorptive capacity %K Fuzzy TOPSIS %R %X Network communication is a fundamental pillar of innovation-based economy. Meanwhile, using the concept of knowledge networking, open innovation approach tries to create an interactive relationship between science and industry actors to exchange ideas, technology and knowledge within a network to shorten the course of development and innovation in organizations. Considering Hafkesbrink and Schroll's "Organizational Competences for Open Innovation Model", this paper tries to investigate open innovation strategies of Iran's aviation industry and to identify its implementation challenges. Here, we use survey method to collect data from 66 experts in air transport aviation maintenance agencies, and the data collection tool is a standard questionnaire. A T-test is used to examine the status of each variable, and the fuzzy TOPSIS method to rank factors influencing open innovation approach. The results clearly show that the factor of networking capability, from collaborative capabilities dimension; and the factors of identifying innovative opportunities, and understanding and exchanging, from absorptive capacity, are in undesirable conditions, but the rest of the factors have acceptable conditions. The affecting factors are also rated by fuzzy TOPSIS method, and the results show that the factors of understanding and exchanging, identifying innovative opportunities, and networking capabilities are the most important ones, and the factors of the specific designing of structure and process, outside-to-inside and vice versa cooperation, and internal cooperation are less important. %U https://www.nowavari.ir/article_14665_7f7c3e2aa01835cfa7d5cd5c111751db.pdf