Abstract
This survey has been prepared in order to investigate the relationship between preferred thinking styles and tendency of higher education students toward innovation. This is a descriptive- correlative survey and its population consists of 90 persons from thirteen majors of M.A in Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah branch so that it has been done via classified-random sampling method. The tools used in survey included thinking styles questionnaire by Sternberg Wagner to determine preferred thinking styles and researcher based questionnaire of Students innovation amount. Analysis of collected data was performed by statistical methods such as (Mean and Average) and referential statistics tests such as (Pearson correlation and multiple step to step regression). The results show that there is a significant and positive relation between styles of legislative, executive, judicial, local, internal and liberal with tendency toward innovation and there is a significant and negative relation between conservative thinking method and innovation. Most of the correlation was related to liberal thinking style (0/451) and the least correlation was related to monarchic thinking style (0/025). The results of this survey are in accordance with previous surveys regarding the relationship between thinking styles and innovation. Therefore, it is a suggestion for universities and higher education universities to guide and encourage students toward innovation through devising methods and curriculums suitable for students. Also, it is suggested to use their tendency to employing in innovation-oriented environments as much as possible.