Intellectual capital for communities : nations, regions, and cities / edited by Ahmed Bounfour and Leif Edvinsson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bounfour, Ahmed.

Edvinsson, Leif.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intellectual capital.

Intangible property--Management.

Intangible property.

Knowledge management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the knowledge economy, the value of corporations is directly related to their knowledge and intellectual capital. But broaden the perspective a little wider and you begin to see the possibilities: Think of cities, regions, even entire nations, in addition to the public sector. If intangibles and intellectual capital are important to the private sector, they are also important to the productivity and competitiveness of the public sector, and so to communities and nations as a whole. In this book, Editors Ahmed Bounfour and Leif Edivinsson have brought together the best minds in intellectual

Contents:

Front Cover; Intellectual Capital for Communities; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction, by Ahmed Bounfour and Leif Edvinsson; Part One: Modeling and Contextualizing Intellectual Capital for Communities; Chapter 1. Modeling Intangibles: Transaction Regimes Versus Community Regimes: Ahmed Bounfour; Chapter 2. Regional Intellectual Capital in Waiting: A Strategic Intellectual Capital Quest: Leif Edvinsson; Part Two: Intellectual Capital for Nations; Chapter 3. Estimating the Level of Investment in Knowledge Across the OECD Countries: Mosahid Khan

Chapter 4. Knowledge Economies: A Global Perspective: Jean-Eric Aubert Chapter 5. Investing in Intangibles: Is a Trillion Dollars Missing From the Gross Domestic Product?: Leonard Nakamura; Chapter 6. Intangibles and Intellectual Capital in the European Investment Bank Project Appraisal: Jean-Jacques Mertens and Jacques Van der Meer; Chapter 7. Assessing Performance of European Innovations Systems: An Intellectual Capital Indexes Perspective: Ahmed Bounfour; Chapter 8. National Intellectual Capital Index: The Benchmarking of Arab Countries: Nick Bontis

Chapter 9. The Intellectual Capital of the State of Israel: Edna Pasher and Sigal Shachar Chapter 10. Rethinking Leadership in the Knowledge Society, Learning From Others: How to Integrate Intellectual and Social Capital and Establish a New Balance of Value and Values: Bernhard Von Mutius; Chapter 11. Japan and Other East Asian Economies Under the Knowledge-Based Economy: Seiichi Masuyama; Part Three: Intellectual Capital for Regions; Chapter 12. Value Creation Efficiency at National and Regional Levels: Case Study-Croatia and the European Union: Ante Pulic

Chapter 13. A European Regional Path to the Knowledge Economy: Challenges and Opportunities: Dimitri Corpakis Chapter 14. Intellectual Capital Creation in Regions: A Knowledge System Approach: Anssi Smedlund and Aino Pöyhönen; Chapter 15. Ragusa or How to Measure Ignorance: The Ignorance Meter: Klaus North and Stefanie Kares; Chapter 16. Can the State Stimulate the Creation of Regional Networks? Experiences From the Virtual Marketplace Bavaria Initiative: Hans-Joachim Heusler and Hans Schedl

Chapter 17. The Region's Competence and Human Capital: Lessons From the Collaboration Between Three European Regions on Competence Mapping and Intellectual Capital Management: Lars Karlsson and Paolo MartinezPart Four: Intellectual Capital for Cities and Local Communities; Chapter 18. Learning-by-Playing: Bridging the Knowing-Doing Gap in Urban Communities: Albert A. Angehrn

Chapter 19. Cities' Intellectual Capital Benchmarking System (CICBS): A Methodology and a Framework for Measuring and Managing Intellectual Capital of Cities: A Practical Application in the City of Mataró: Jose ́ María Viedma Marti

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-136-39500-8

1-281-00981-4

9786611009816

1-4175-7747-9

0-08-047856-5

9780080478562

OCLC:

637478628