Synopses & Reviews
Capital For Our Time is among the first to bring together experts from widely different fields to address the challenges of intellectual capital. It includes essays by cutting-edge academics, economists, attorneys, researchers, intellectual capital managers, and CEOs as well as representatives of the venture capital, government, and trade association communities. Prominent professionals discuss the impact of intellectual capital on national and corporate performance including
- The role of ideas in economic growth
- The effectiveness of the legal system in protecting idea-based property rights
- The demands of knowledge management
- Investor, policy maker, and management perspectives on valuing intellectual assets
- The impact of intellectual capital on business relationships
- Specific challenges of the Internet and the Genome Project
- Impending changes and opportunities in the international regime
- Intellectual capital and the innovation imperative
Synopsis
A collection of essays on solving our economic, legal, and management challenges, Capital For Our Time is among the first to bring together experts from widely different fields to address the challenges of intellectual capital. These prominent professionals discuss the impact of intellectual capital on national and corporate performance.
About the Author
Nicholas Imparato is a professor and chair of the Department of Marketing and Law at the University of San Francisco and, since 1996, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His research has focused on the intersection of public policy and business strategy.
His current research publications and papers deal primarily with a range of challenges facing emerging economies: the determinants and motivations of Chinese investments in Turkey, the political and economic hurdles in Tanzania’s artisanal mining sector, the response of poor nations to the 2008 crisis, and the pattern of China foreign direct investment in Africa.