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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.
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