How The Knowledge Management Improving the Technological Innovation Capabilities: Indonesia SMEs Context

Post Covid-19 conditions are very complex and unpredictable because the business environment is very dynamic. Various literature recognizes innovation as a strategy in dealing with this phenomenon for organizations to maintain their competitive advantage. Meanwhile, for every business organization, accumulated knowledge has the potential to produce innovation. The point of knowledge management (KM) towards innovation is to provide philosophical studies at a conceptual level in an effort to improve and develop organizational aspects for innovation. This research tries to explore further the correlation between knowledge management and technological innovation capability (TIC) dimensions, especially for business organizations at the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) level. There were 216 respondents taken from a total population of 350 at SME Logam Ngingas, so the response effectiveness rate in this study was 61.71%. This research tries to explore how knowledge management is able to influence the dimension of TIC. In the context of the SME Logam Ngingas, the highest correlation is between KM & Manufacturing capabilities. Meanwhile, the lowest correlation is between KM and R&D capabilities.