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Introduction: this article supports the bases of a knowledge management infrastructure that improves the capacity for innovation in a company in the Colombian energy sector. Materials and methods: four methodological phases were carried out: a bibliometric review was carried out, the model that contemplates as variables was defined: intellectual capital and organizational learning, human resources management, information, and communication technologies (ICT) and innovation, this was used for the diagnosis and, finally, for the practical proposal. Results: it was validated a direct, positive, and significant relationship between knowledge management and innovation and a direct, positive, and significant mediation of human resource management and ICT between knowledge management and innovation. Conclusions: we concluded that intellectual capital and organizational learning integrate knowledge management, and in turn, that there are mediating conditions for human resource management and ICT for knowledge management in innovation in an organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Organizational learning has become important in educational institutions due to the necessity to have trained personnel. The problem that arises is the lack of congruence between the development of classes, the management's requirements and the given training. The objective of this paper is to propose a methodology and acquiring a collective learning for its human capital considering a knowledge management approach. The proposal allows the identification, documentation and transfer of knowledge using as information technology the SharePoint tool as an aid for its implementation. As a result, we obtain a methodology that disseminates knowledge and accurately shows the training that the staff needs or does not need. It is concluded that the methodology provides an innovative way to manage the knowledge of teachers, and serves as an aid in the decision-making process regarding trainings, selection of personnel, among others. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study identifies a technique to measure the intellectual capital in a higher education institution, based on the evaluation of the efficiency of the investment in scientific research, through the allocated economic resources, in relation to the components of the intellectual capital: human capital, structural capital and relational capital. Using an ANCOVA regression model with panel data, the registered incomes and expenses are accounted. Significant statistical differences between the three components is evidenced, being the structural capital the most relevant. This allows demonstrating the efficiency in the allocation of the resources, management and incentives institutional competence in the management and transfer of new knowledge to the society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Knowledge management as an innovative and key process for smart organizations allowed its application in higher education research centers, based on intellectual capital (IC), as a fundamental axis in the creation of intangible assets, using the Intellectus model, which emphasizes as components of the IC: Human Capital (HC), Structural Capital (SC) and Relational Capital(RC). Objective: The work seeks to develop a measurement methodology for HC and SC for research centers. Materials and methods: Using the fuzzy logic technique 2 and the Matlab® toolbox, algorithms were generated to obtain an intelligent tool. The model validation was applied to the Administrative Sciences research group of the Metropolitan Technological Institute of Medellin. Through the Delphi technique, six experts determined that the decisive variables to be evaluated, according to the model, were from the HC: values and aptitudes, attitudes, and knowledge; from organizational SC: organizational learning; and from technological SC: R&D. The information was obtained from the application of a questionnaire with 54 questions to 16 researchers, measured with a Likert scale. Results: With fuzzy logic 2, a base of rules was achieved that, together with the Karnik-Mendel type of reduction, allowed decision making on the variables through the control surface. Conclusion: The combination of capabilities and effort and R&D brings greater value. The relationship between attitudes and organizational learning is significant, although not a priority in the generation of value; and the generation of value, between the values and skills variables, with organizational learning, is not significant.e [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the value that a company has in relation to its intangible assets through the diagnosis of its intellectual capital. In fact, it aims at assessing the existing intellectual capital of a Mexican textile manufacturing company by the identification of knowledge, capacities, experiences, and staff skills. For this, it was necessary to identify each element involved in its intellectual capital --human, organizational, and relational-- with the purpose of approaching existing strengths and weaknesses. The methodology used was basically descriptive, aiming at describing the relevant components of intellectual capital. Consequently, data and statistics about company staff were collected --57 employees--, based on questionnaires and polls and the outcomes were ranged in a scale from 1 to 5, being 5 the highest rate for each intellectual capital dimension. The results were as follows: 4.27 for relational capital; 3,80 for organizational capital, and 3,69 for human capital. Based on this, different growing company opportunity areas were identified, reaching the stated organizational goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When analyzing processes of information and knowledge management and their application to the business practice, the links between both processes' approaches and categories become apparent, evidencing a tight relationship in their conception and function in business, though they are usually seen as isolated categories. Info-knowledge integrates the flows of information and knowledge between agents, as well as their experiences, learning and skills, having a spiraling, growing and synergic thought model as its process approach that adds value and sets the business foundation and product innovation. The proposed design breaks with the traditional information and knowledge structure, generating a single cycle that offers the possibility of integration in supply chain processes that is grounded in the application of information technology. Relevant results are the contributions to the global planning of the supply chain, the possibility to make adequate decisions; cooperation, permanent communication and institutionalization, increase in value in the supply chain, and the preparation of actions of continuous improvement and innovation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study has been to measure the variables of Intellectual Capital at Universidad de Atacama, with a prospective look for the next ten years. To do this, we have used the Delphi methodology. This technique has been supplemented with a mathematical tool called Qualitative Profiling Approach, based on a series of predetermined variables. This work describes the concept of Intellectual Capital divided into three variables, namely: Human Capital, Structural Capital and Relational Capital, since this classification supports firstly elements like the value of knowledge created by the people, secondly knowledge that has been expressed explicitly and documented, finally by external information exchange. To carry out the study a survey was conducted, whose purpose has been to consider a number of variables related to perception. The results have shown that the perception of the community has not been very favorable. However, the opinions have been useful to generate approaches in measuring intangibles and Knowledge Management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]