Intellectual Capital Research Group

Intellectual Capital Research Group is born.

This research group centres on aspects that related to the measurement and valuation of intangible assets in companies, sectors, regions or countries.

His components report his works in these topics. On the other hand, they aspire to develop an international network of experts and researches in this topic.

ICRG

ECIC 2010 - Lisbon March

In Lisbon, we present results and comparisons on intellectual capital for countries in European Congress on Intellectual Capital (ECIC 2010).

Main contributions were:

• In economics, it is becoming increasingly necessary to consider aspects that go beyond production to measure the national wealth.


• In the last years, researches have carried out IC models.


• Generally speaking, differences exist with respect to the indicators used and dimensions into which intellectual capital must be divided. However, the practical results obtained by these models yield very similar conclusions. Therefore, it would be desirable to obtain an approach to a model that captures the advantages and disadvantages of each, in order to extrapolate it.


• Results confirm that the gap of intangible capital is divergent, that is to say, that the rich countries are more prosperous in knowledge and manage this asset more efficiently.


• Finally, in terms of visible plus non visible wealth, the comparison in per capita terms shows a map in which the great areas of world-wide development remain the same, although with greater variations in said zones. The countries with the highest level of hidden intangibles can be found in the north and centre Europe, followed by the United States and Japan.

Models compared were:

World Bank, Bontis, Yeh-Yun Lin & Edvinsson and our model.

THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ECONOMIC GROWTH AND INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL: AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY

69th International Atlantic Economic Conference. Prague, Czech Republic
In this case we present an international study for 82 countries, as conclusions:

• We have proposed an indicator of intellectual capital that picks up factors with great influence on economic growth not captured by GDP.


• We have used efficiency index to group countries in accordance with the level of development.


• Structural factor (image, processes, technology…) are the most closely related to the wealth of a country.


• Human capital does not contribute significatly to economic growth.


• Countries that produce most good and services are the highest in intangible value.


• The differences between the first and last country in terms of GDP is smaller then the gap in terms of intellectual capital.


• Factor more important are structural.