INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL

Non-Financial Performance Measurements
Today, under the influence of globalization, environmental crises, and widespread ethical breakdown there is pressure to identify and report new, non-traditional, and “non-financial” measures of performance to get at newly recognized dimensions of enterprise value, success, and significance. These new demands emerge from a belief that social, environmental, ethical, and geopolitical factors materially impact the ability of a company or enterprise to perform favorably.

Managerial Competencies and the Enterprise Asset Base
Companies often fail to notice that there asset base has or is shifting from traditional tangible assets to an intangible asset base, and that concurrently, their approach to strategy and management must also change to effectively deploy and leverage the shifting asset mix.

The Strategic Positioning of Intangible Assets (PDF, 521k)
Patents, trademarks, copyrights and other intangibles are not worth anything if they sit in isolation. It requires individuals with vision and abilty to understand their potential and to turn this into meaningful return by putting in place programmes that will maximise their value.

Strategic Readiness
The competitive advantages found in modern corporations, non-profit organizations, and even governmental agencies are increasingly determined by the strategic readiness of their intangible assets.

Social Capital and Economic Growth
Many believe that social capital is an under-leveraged intellectual capital asset which could be powerfully mobilized within both organizations and communities to deliver benefit.

Towards a Strategy of Valuing Patents as Intellectual Capital
Patents are a major force in the world economy, and one of only a few metrics commonly employed to gauge the tides of new ideas and innovation that are driving our economy.

Building Market Capitalization With Intellectual Capital Assets
How can we make intangible assets, known as Intellectual Capital, actionable so we can use them to drive corporate valuation and stock price? Presented here is a simple way to think about the subject.

What is Intellectual Capital?
An explanation of the seven areas of Intellectual Capital: the brand, intellectual property and goodwill, active intelligence, corporate culture, people, experience and history, the work product.

Intellectual Capital and Intellectual Property
How does traditional “Intellectual Property” fit into the modern discussion surrounding the value and practicality of “Intangible Assets,” “Knowledge Assets,” or what has come to be known as “Intellectual Capital?”

Intangible assets, intellectual capital or property? It does make a difference, by Lesley Craig and Dr. Lindsay Moore (Front Range Tech Biz, Feb. 3, 2002) How does traditional “Intellectual Property” fit into the modern discussion surrounding the value and practicality of “Intangible Assets,” “Knowledge Assets,” or what has come to be known as “Intellectual Capital?”

Brand equity critical in firms' valuation by Dr. Lindsay Moore (Boulder County Business Report, Oct. 19-Nov. 1, 2001) (PDF) With the dawn of the age of Intellectual Capital, during the mid '90s, came the realization that the real wealth in the modern enterprise is located in the intangible assets of that enterprise - as opposed the the "traditional (tangible) assets" such as real estate, plant, equipment, inventory, cash and the like.