The ability for an organization to innovate has become one of the most important capabilities needed in the new knowledge economy. The research has demonstrated that an organization’s culture of innovation in particular predicts organizational innovativeness across multiple industries. To provide support to these organizations in their abilities to understand the culture of innovation, researchers have developed instruments to measure culture of innovation, and while many of these instruments have been widely used to inform organizational opportunities for improvement, few of these instruments have been validated or replicated beyond their initial use. The current study employs multiple factor analytic methods to validate the factor structure of the Innovation Quotient instrument developed by Rao and Weintraub and assess the extent to which the instrument is reliable for multiple organizational groups. The results of this study, as well as implications for researchers interested in culture of innovation, are presented.

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衡量创新文化：创新商工具的验证研究（第 2 部分）

组织的创新能力已成为新知识经济中最重要的能力之一。研究表明，组织的创新文化尤其可以预测跨多个行业的组织创新。为了支持这些组织了解创新文化的能力，研究人员开发了衡量创新文化的工具，虽然其中许多工具已被广泛用于告知组织改进机会，但这些工具中很少有人得到验证或复制超出其最初使用的范围。目前的研究采用多因素分析方法来验证 Rao 和 Weintraub 开发的创新商数工具的因素结构，并评估该工具对多个组织群体的可靠程度。介绍了这项研究的结果，以及对对创新文化感兴趣的研究人员的影响。