About Forum


Purpose and Background


It is widely recognized that, nowadays, innovation is a central driving force of competitiveness and value creation of the organizations. This stimulates an increasing interest to investigate and understand the factors and determinants at the basis of innovation dynamics and capabilities grounding organizations performance improvement.
In particular, research and practice have highlighted the role of Intellectual Capital - as as a bundle of intangible and knowledge assets - in the development and application of innovation. Coherently with this perspective the concept of innovation capacity has recently emerged in the academic and managerial debate as a meta-concept to denote the real and potential capabilities of an organizational system to convert knowledge and intangible assets into innovation able to drive long term competitiveness, profitability and value creation.

FORUM TOPICS:

  • Business Development and Knowledge-intensive industries
  • IC and new business models
  • IC in an uncertain business landscape
  • IC and business performance improvement
  • Knowledge-perspectives of change management
  • IC and sustainable territorial patterns of development
  • "Intelligent regions" what does matter?
  • The past, the present and the future of IC management
  • IC, innovation capacity and value creation dynamics
  • Emotions, creativity, arts and passion for knowledge-intensive organizations
  • Field studies and case competitions: lessons from IC management applications
  • Linking IC, strategy and entrepreneurship
  • IC in public organizations
  • IC and service industry