Synopses & Reviews
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 addit
Table of Contents
Introduction by Ahmed Bounfour and Leif Edvinsson -- Part One: Modelling and contextualising IC for Communities -- Chapter 1: Modelling Intangibles: Transaction Regime Versus Community regimes -- , Ahmed Bounfour -- Chapter 2: Regional Intellectual capital in waiting, Leif Edvinsson -- Part Two : IC for Nations -- Chapter 3: Estimating the Level of Investment in knowledge across OECD countries, Mosahid Khan -- Chapter 4: Knowledge Economies: a Global Perspective, Jean-Eric Aubert, World Bank Institute -- Chapter 5: Investing in Intangibles: Is a Trillion Dollars Missing from the GDP? -- Leonard Nakamura, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia -- Chapter 6: Intangibles and Intellectual Capital in the European Investment Bank Project Appraisal, Jean-Jaques Mertens , European Investment Bank and Jacques Van der Meer -- Chapter 7 : Assessing Performance of European Innovations Systems: An Intellectual Capital Indexes Perspectives,Ahmed Bounfour,University of Marne La Vallee -- Chapter 8: National Intellectual Capital Index, The Benchmarking of Arab Countries -- Dr. Nick Bontis, DeGroote Business School, McMaster University -- Chapter 9 : The Intellectual Capital of The State of Israel, Dr. 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, Germany -- Chapter 11: Japan and Other East Asian Economies under the Knowledge-Based Economy, -- Seiichi Masuyama, Nomura Research Institute, Japan and Asia -- Part Three : IC for Regions -- Chapter 12: Value Creation Efficiency at National and Regional Level - Case Study Croatia and EU, Ante Pulic -- Chapter 13: A European regional path to the knowledge economy: challenges and opportunities, Dr Dimitri Corpakis, Head of Sector -- European Commission DG Research -- Chapter 14: Intellectual Capital Creation in Regions : A Knowledge System Approach -- Anssi Smedlund and Aino P̲yh̲nen, M.Econ.Sc. Anssi Smedlund is a Research Assistant and PhD Candidate of Knowledge Management in the Department of Business Administration at Lappeenranta University of Technology -- Chapter 15: Ragusa or how to measure ignorance: The ignorance meter -- By Klaus North and Stefanie Kares, University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany -- Chapter 16: Can the state stimulate the creation of regional networks? - Experiences from the Virtual Marketplace Bavaria initiative, -- Hans-Joachim Heusler , Hans Schedl -- Chapter 17: The Region's Competence and Human Capital: Lessons from the Collaboration Between 3 European Regions on Competence Mapping and Intellectual Capital Management, Lars Karlssson and Paolo Martinez -- Part Four -- IC for Cities and Local Communities -- Chapter 18: Learning-by-Playing: Bridging the Knowing-Doing Gap in Urban Communities, Albert A Angehrn INSEAD, The European Institute of Business Administration -- 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 Matar̤, by Još Mar̕a Viedma Marti Polytechnic University of Catalonia and -- President of Intellectual Capital Management Systems -- Chapter 20IC for Communities, Research and Policy agenda, Ahmed Bounfour -- Index.