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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]

The purpose of this paper has been to investigate the relationship between intellectual capital (IC) and financial performance, based on two constructs, human capital (HC) and relational capital (RC), measured in financial terms. The methodology was applied to a sample of Universities of Chile. This was done at public and private universities during the 2014-2018 periods. In this investigation, we used descriptive statistics, level of correlation, and panel data analysis to demonstrate the existence of a positive relationship between each component of IC and the performance of universities, measured in terms of financial performance. The panel results confirm the hypothesis that HC and RC positively impact the university financial performance (return on equity, ROE, and return on assets, ROA). The article contributes to improving the conceptualization of Intellectual Capital and its relationship with the financial performance of Universities. [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]

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]

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]

In actuality, governments and businesses found in intangible assets knowledge resources to create value. In this context, universities -- traditional forming human capital and generators of new knowledge -- change its mission and actively participate in discussions on the development of their regions. They have a considerable intellectual capital when compared to companies, have a strongly qualified human capital, appropriate structures for incrementing and exploit the human capital and relational capital with key interlocutors of society. Your participation in regional innovation systems and the establishment of regions of innovation in its surroundings is a fact found in the international literature. Are supporting the process of innovation and seek to meet the growing demands of new knowledge for the implementation of innovation. This article discusses the intellectual capital available in universities and its influence on the potential of creating knowledge. The study was conducted at the Federal University of Santa Maria, located in southern Brazil. Based on a model, a questionnaire was applied to teachers University researchers. The results showed similarities with the literature that discusses the business environment. Using multivariate analysis it was possible to conclude on the research question and come to a map of the potential of knowledge creation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents an analysis of the concepts of knowledge management and intellectual capital, as well as the assessment of 12 models for measuring intellectual capital, which could be used, totally or partially, in Cuban hotel companies, due to their characteristics and application concepts. Some inadequacies in the above mentioned models are identified, which do not limit the use of their indicators in measuring intellectual capital in hotel companies. As a result, the decision is to use the indicators of the Skandia model, concentrated into 4 groups: client, human resources, renovation and development, and processes. Out of the 85 indicators of this model, experts consider that 23 can be applied in Cuban hotel companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

El artículo se enfoca en la estrategia de gestión del conocimiento para la formación de los investigadores en las áreas de desarrollo tecnológico y la investigación aplicada en la Universidad Tecnológica de Jalisco, México. Según los autores, la estrategia enfatiza el desarrollo del capital intelectual de los docentes con el enfoque en los elementos del capital humano, estructural y relacional.

This article presents the KNOWLEDGE VALUE AGGREGATE METHOD -- KVA for the intellectual capital measure in companies, presenting specifically its application to a superior education center as it is the Politécnico Colombiano Jaime Isaza Cadavid. This paper stars with the KVA method description, followed by the application of such method in the commented institution, and finally it is presented the obtained results and some future works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Organizational knowledge and its different forms play a critical role in order to effectively develop the products and processes of the firm (Kogut and Zander, 1996; Teece, 1998; Ategre and Lapiedra, 2005). This work explores the influence of the different forms of organizational knowledge (or Intellectual Capital) on the innovation capability of professional service firms. For reaching this purpose, in a first section, an exploratory factor analysis is earned out, obtaining the three main blocks of Intellectual Capital: Human Capital, Structural Capital, and Relational Capital. In the next step, the basic hypothesis about the positive influence of these kinds of Intellectual Capital (and their main dimensions) on firm innovation, are presented. From the empirical findings obtained for Spanish professional service firms, it is special worthwhile to highlight the role of customer relationships, as well as IT-based competences, alliances, and corporate reputation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a reflexive study of the scientific production on Intellectual Capital (IC) from a bibliometric study and from a mapping of the results of research published in Brazilian journals classifi ed as "A" by Capes and in the proceedings of the "EnAnpad" and of the "Congresso USP". The analysis of the 73 papers on CI published between 2000 and 2006 yielded the following results: the greater part of the studies is practical in nature; Mackenzie is the most relevant IES [instituição de ensino superior - graduate studies institution] in terms of scientific production; citation analysis points to the works by Edvinsson and Malone and Sveiby as the most referenced; most of the research devotes attention to external users; 'human, structural and customer capital' is the most used category; Edvinsson and Malone's model inform most of the studies; there is a parallelism between the topics explored in the Brazilian and in the international contexts; the multidisciplinary character of CI research is confirmed, from the tendencies evidenced in the studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, the intangible assets management, more and more, is a relevant issue for the improvement of the organizational competitiveness above all from the point of view related to the resources and capacities. Thus, the creation, development and management of knowledge need a set of tools what supporting in order to dynamize this approach, the frame of the subject called Intellectual Capital. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]