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Intellectual Capital (IC) has played a major role in driving growth, competitiveness, and sustainability over decades, improving people's well-being and the economic performance of businesses. At the same time, the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have emerged as an integrated approach to sustainable development principles of people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnership, which represent one of the most urgent challenges in our times. The industrial sector is particularly challenged to adopt a sustainable approach to solving development issues by addressing the SDGs. Sustainable Development Goal 9 (SDG 9) is built on three interconnected pillars: infrastructure, industry, and innovation, all of which are strongly interconnected, sharing the common mission of achieving socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable economic development. By adopting SDG 9 and its related targets, the global community can benefit from an industrial development that is inclusive and sustainable, with an impact on all other SDGs. From a strategic perspective, IC is predominantly studied as a bundle of intangibles that creates value, thus embodying a set of resources that are decisive in sustaining competitive advantage, which is necessary for sustainability and for ensuring people's well-being and economic growth, in line with SDGs. Despite an increasing number of studies exploring the links between IC and sustainability, a major gap emerges in what concerns the influence of IC on achieving SDGs in specific or interconnected goals. Based on the relevant literature, the aim of this paper is to explore how the characteristics of the IC can foster the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, specifically, the sustainable and innovative development of organizations by adopting Goal 9 and its targets. This paper contributes to the literature on IC as a driver for SDGs. In more detail, it opens some avenues for future research on strengthening capabilities to solve development challenges, involving different actors, stakeholders, sectors, and regions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aims to investigate how urban regeneration projects contribute to achieving sustainable development through an intellectual capital (IC) perspective for driving growth within urban communities and improving quality of life. Literature has shown that urban regeneration projects help support urban change. The IC helps drive sustainable development and competitiveness of regions, cities and communities. Urban regeneration projects contribute to better quality of life and drive social and economic renewal of urban communities. This exploratory study proposes a research framework addressed to join urban regeneration projects with IC view on cities and urban communities. This paper can contribute to the extant literature focused on the relationship between urban regeneration processes and the role of intellectual capital as driver of sustainable development. This qualitative study, using a multiple case study methodology, provides a comparative analysis of two urban regeneration projects that help the redevelopment of urban environments and support human and social capital within communities. The findings show that urban regeneration projects significantly contribute to revitalising urban spaces, supporting the components of IC that drive social and economic growth of communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper demonstrates regional (Russian) specificity of knowledge management, describes development trends for digital society in the Russian Federation and their effect on the general level of preparedness and capacity for knowledge management at the level of companies and at the personal (individual) level. Trends and current performance of digital transformation of Russian economy are explored. On this ground, the analysis is performed of the potential for development of knowledge management in the Russian Federation in digital economy environment. As a result of the measures taken by the Russian Government, substantial shift in labor market has been recently observed (including emergence of new professions and change in forms of employment and in relations between employers and employees). At the same time at the state level, active and broad-scale deployment of information technologies in socially significant spheres (education, medicine, state services) is taking place. Consequences of these changes have radical implications for preparedness of companies and individuals for positive perception of processes and tools of knowledge management. Of particular significance to this effect is the growth of prevalence in Russia of mobile devices with Internet access, which causes deeper "submersion" of individuals and companies into various Internet-environments of social networks. Conclusion is drawn from this academic research that Russia's transition to a higher level of digitalization of society allows companies to extend their range of sources of knowledge and make further arrangements for exchange of knowledge with the most numerous category - citizens, clients, users. Recommendations are provided for assessment of preparedness of companies, their employees and consumers for more extensive application of KM tools in their activities, and for raising the level of preparedness to dissemination of knowledge among ordinary citizens. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the shift to the Knowledge-Based Economy (KBE), knowledge becomes a driver for economic growth and becomes more important than capital, land and labour. This shift makes Intellectual Capital (IC) and resources vital for companies to create wealth, value and gain competitive advantage. The State of Qatar, in its "Qatar Vision 2030" plans to transfer its economy to KBE. This has put a pressure on companies to depend more on IC. The companies listed on the Qatar Stock Exchange (QSE) have started to identify and report about their IC, and there is an expectation that the reported IC information might affect the market value of these companies. This paper investigates the relationship between the IC information reported in the annual reports and market value of the companies listed on the QSE. The study found that IC information has a significant relationship between IC information and firm market value. This finding indicates that companies report about their IC to help the stakeholders (including shareholders and investors) to understand the real value of the company (which includes IC values). This shows that the companies have started to depend more on IC to contribute to transforming the economy to KBE. This is the first study to examine the relationship between IC information and market value in Qatar. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At present the world community faces the challenge of building the Smart economy. It is well recognized that the economic progress comes from increased productivity, innovation, competitiveness, economic renewal and creativity of the workforce. The goal of the smart economy is to restore and retain a sustainable economic growth after a depressing crises, to provide a high-quality education system, to promote innovative business environment, to ensure high productivity, to translate knowledge creation into economic return. In this context innovative universities aim at training knowledge workers, forming the competences of learners in line with the requirement of modern labor market in the Smart economy. The graduates face the challenge to generate new ideas and to work in the knowledge- intensive industries that supply advanced ICT devices, systems and networks. The universities in the smart economy need to transform the infrastructure to meet the challenges. The paper presents the innovative infrastructure that facilitates a more full perception of new knowledge, interoperability between internal and external knowledge, a high degree of knowledge and innovation in universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]