Background: Knowledge sharing is a fundamental mechanism for making
collaborative flows effective, allowing innovators to acquire new information
and stimuli for exploring external ideas and exploiting internal knowledge.
Aim of the study: assessing the effect of knowledge sharing on nurse teachers‟
innovative behavior. Design: A descriptive correlational research design.
Setting: all secondary Technical Nursing Schools at Elfayoum governorate.
Subjects: All the available nurse teachers who are working in the designated
setting involved in the study. Tools of data collection: two data collection tools
were used namely: Knowledge sharing readiness questionnaire, and Innovative
Behavior Inventory. Result: Majority of nurse teachers had low total knowledge
sharing level and innovative behavior level. Additionally, there were highly
statistically significance correlation between total knowledge sharing score and
innovative behavior score among nurse teachers. Conclusion: The level of total
readiness to share knowledge and innovative behavior was low score among
nurse teachers. Also, there was highly statistically significance correlation
between total readiness to share knowledge score and total innovative behavior
score. Recommendations: Universities should be able to support their academic
staff in research collaboration and sharing knowledge by allowing them create
new theories and establishing new research principles, directors of technical
nursing schools should accordingly build an organizational and technological
environment that creates the conditions for the exchange of tacit knowledge, a
future research must be made to improve Knowledge sharing and Innovative
behavior among nurse teachers in other nurses‟ institutes.