Abbas Babaei Nejad - Ph.D. student, Department of Management, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran
Masoud Pourkiani - Department of Management, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran,
Shiva Madahian - Department of Management, Kerman Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kerman, Iran

The present study aims to investigate and compare the status of knowledge management and intellectual capital in Islamic Azad and Payame Noor universities in Kerman province. The present study is based on descriptive assumptions and is a survey study in terms of method. The statistical population of the study includes all professors and faculty members of Payame Noor University and the Islamic Azad University of Kerman Branch. Sampling was by the stratified method. To analyze data, Statistical formulas of t and the mean difference of t and Levene's test were performed using SPSS software. To collect the required data, two researcher-made questionnaires were used. To determine the validity, the content validity method was used, so that the validity of the questionnaire of factors related to intellectual capital was ۸۸% and the knowledge management questionnaire was ۸۸% and to measure reliability using Cronbach's alpha, the reliability value for intellectual capital questionnaires was ۹۶% and knowledge management was ۹۵%. Findings from the t-test showed that there is no difference between knowledge management and intellectual capital in Islamic Azad and Payame Noor universities in Kerman province.

Intellectual Capital, Knowledge management, Payame noor University, Islamic Azad University, Kerman