How can knowledge become intellectual capital?

The brilliant Peruvian economist, Hernando de Soto, wrote a little book that explains what “capital” is: The Mystery of Capital. I recommend it to anyone who wishes to understand what intellectual capital is, since one must first start with capital. read more

Capturing intellectual capital and the resulting organizational insights could become core and important functions of Human Resources management. At some point, metrics would also be useful to indicate usage, to indicate what is and what is not being accessed, and also to give management a sense of the value of the knowledge repository. read more

In order to profit from intellectual capital, knowledge management has become a task for management. Often, intellectual capital, or at least rights to it, are moved off-shore for exploitation, which entails risks that are hard to value. read more

Intellectual capital is considered an asset, and can broadly be defined as the collection of all informational resources a company has at its disposal that can be used to drive profits, gain new customers, create new products or otherwise improve the business. read more

Intellectual capital is the value of a company or organization's employee knowledge, skills or any proprietary information. Intellectual capital is the value of a company or organization's employee knowledge, skills or any proprietary information. read more