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    Innovation Value Chain for Ethiopian Leather Industries
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-10) Berihun, Negash; Shewit, Woldegebriel (PhD); Shimelis, Tilahun
    This study examined innovation in the value chain of Ethiopian leather industries. It furthermore addressed the multifaceted challenges and barriers for knowledge management (knowledge acquiring, knowledge conversion and knowledge diffusion) across the value chain of Ethiopian leather industries. The Ethiopian leather sector is a priority sector which has a lack of human power in both pre-slaughter and post-slaughter techniques or process which affects the whole value chains of the leather industries. Given this reality livestock (raw hide, raw skin) and finished leather products are less compute in global market and the leather industries are not more profitable as compare with other priority sectors. Different value chain models have been developed to optimize the flow of material with in industries. Among others, porter’s VC model which focused on primary and supportive activities for material flow. The researcher used both primary and secondary data and analyzed using SPSS software. Furthermore, this study used factor loading as in put for confirmative factor analysis using AMOS software to checked up either all innovation value chain factors are conformed or not to propose innovation value chain structural models based on CFA fit indices. The major findings were the selected evaluation factors, KA (knowledge acquiring evaluation factors), KC (knowledge conversion factors) and KD (knowledge diffusion factors) are confirmed to proposed innovation value chain structural model which recommended for Ethiopian leather industries. Finally, it can also use for other industries with same adjustment.