The influences of knowledge management on innovation within formal and non-formal R&D manufacturing firms, Thailand

Thailand moves from an agriculture to manufacturing and service country, so strengthening in Science, technology, and innovation (STI) are important to guarantee a sustainable economic development. To gain more competitive advantage in manufacturing industry, developing in product and process innovation are necessary. An empirical statistical analysis is gotten from 112 manufacturing firms, located in Thailand. This analysis is theoretically analyzed by using multiple linear regression. The objective of this paper is to examine the influence of knowledge management on product and process innovation within formal and non-formal R&D manufacturing firms. The results indicate that the formal R&D firms tend to perform knowledge management better than the non-formal R&D firms in both product and process innovation.