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Innovation is the lifeblood of any industry, and the banking sector is no exception. However, in an ever-changing world, simply being innovative is not enough, so banks must adopt a concept called ambidextrous innovation, which involves simultaneously discovering new opportunities and exploiting existing ones, because this approach allows banks to balance the need for stability. And balance efficiency and motivation for growth and development. Therefore, this research has been conducted with the aims of determining the effect of knowledge sharing on ambidextrous innovation with the mediating role of intellectual capital and moderating open innovation in the banking industry of Iran. The present research is of quantitative type, from the point of view of the objective, it is of applied type and from the point of view of the data collection method, it is of survey type. The target society of this research is the public, private and Qarzul-Hasneh banks of Golestan province, which have been referred to the central office of all of them in Golestan province (۲۶ banks). At the individual level, a purposeful available sampling method was used to select ۵ people from each bank to complete the questionnaire, and a total of ۱۳۰ questionnaires were collected from ۲۶ banks. In general, in this research, the structural equation modeling method was used to analyze the hypotheses; Descriptive data analysis was done with    software and inferential data analysis was done with Smart PLS software. The results of the research showed that the effect of knowledge sharing on ambidextrous innovation, the effect of knowledge sharing on intellectual capital, the effect of intellectual capital on ambidextrous innovation, and the effect of knowledge sharing through the mediating role of intellectual capital on ambidextrous innovation are confirmed. However, the effect of knowledge sharing through moderation of open innovation on ambidextrous innovation is not confirmed.