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Abstract

Innovation and the its effects on various aspects of life have led to the emergence of some fundamental changes in the relations between human societies and organizations, this phenomenon has affected human desires with an impressive speed and created new needs. The current research seeks to expand science and knowledge in the field of drivers of innovation strategies and their impact, therefore, in terms of goal-based research method, it is part of developmental research and in terms of information gathering method, it is descriptive-survey type and considering the investigation of the relationship between variables, it is correlational research. The statistical population of this research was 150 employees and managers of Abfen and Dasht Zahab tunnel companies. This population was sampled by a simple random method and the sample size was 98 people based on Cochran's formula; Standard questionnaires were used to collect data, and their validity was confirmed by professors and experts, and the reliability of the questionnaire was calculated and confirmed through Cronbach's alpha; To test the hypotheses of the research, the Kolmogorov Smirnov test, the structural equation test and the Friedman ranking test were used with the help of SPSS and AMOS software. The results of the test indicate that the drivers of innovation strategies are effective in innovative activities, and in the ranking it was also found that the most important driver of innovation strategy in internal factors, the factor of market-based activities, has the greatest effect (0.85) and The most important driver in the category of external factors is government support (0.78). The lowest impact is related to the variable factor of cooperation networking (0.57).