| This research aims to determine the effect of knowledge management in the enhancement of the innovation process the adoption of the coordination process in each of the (analysis , definition, design, act) and operational in each of the (knowledge creation, knowledge sharing , knowledge application ) as has been the expression of the process of innovation in each of (product innovation, process innovation), the research was conducted in the Iraqi Drilling Company, were also obtain the necessary information through the questionnaire prepared for this purpose, , which surveyed the opinions of (110) managers from the levels of management in the company, it was used of statistical methods, the arithmetic mean and standard deviation, and multiple regression test, as the study reached a set of conclusions of which there is a positive and significant effect of knowledge management at the level of coordination at the level of ( analysis process) in the innovation process, and also there is a positive and significant effect of operational processes at the level of (sharing of knowledge ) in the innovation process as the research reached a number of recommendations |