Competitive intelligence is a business tools that help organizations in the process of strategic management and increasing business performance through enhancing knowledge, internal communications and strategic plans quality. Competitive intelligence shows the competition positions and make the company to be able to for forecast and develop their markets through analyzing the behavior of the competitions before they are affected by the surroundings their can lead to achieving stable Competitive advantage. This paper presents a model to assess the effect of Competitive intelligence and its components on the Competitive advantage in Isfahan Science and technology Town. Required information are acquired using a questionnaire and collected information are investigated through software LISREL. The results indicate that the use of a Competitive intelligence leads to achieving Competitive advantage compared to competitors and ensures the survival of the organization. In other words, planning and focus, collection, analysis and evaluation and dissemination of information strengthen the Competitive power of the company to get the best position in the market.

According to the latest theoretical and empirical literature of international trade, the market structure is among the most important industry-specific determinants of Competitive advantages. The present paper examines the Competitive advantage determinants of Iranian manufacturing industries using a panel data of industries at the 4-digit aggregation level for the period 2002-2010. We employ the constant market share (CMS) method to measure the Competitive advantage and use the conventional variables to estimate the determinants of the Competitive advantage. The results indicate that factors including the economies of scale, product differentiation, and government policy have positive and significant effects on the Competitive advantage of Iranian manufacturing industries. Based on these results, it seems that monopolistic competition structure based on product differentiation and economies of scale as well as proper government protections, and emphasis on the Competitive advantage instead of merely comparative advantage may improve the Competitive advantage of Iranian manufacturing industries. In this framework, we suggest that more attention should be paid to intra industry trade in developing foreign trade. JEL Classification: F12, F14, F17