The International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics - IFKAD 2011 represents an international leading event in the research and management of Intellectual Capital, Intangible Assets and Knowledge-based development. It is an opportunity for debating and exploring cutting-edge managerial and academic insights at the basis of companies’, institutions’, clusters’, regions’ and nations’ value creation patterns. The Forum is structured in plenary sessions with keynote speakers and parallel sessions. The event is seeking to stimulate a conversation between presenters and participants in order to create a learning context and experience. Important aspects of IFKAD have always been a friendly atmosphere and the informal social activities which allow delegates an opportunity to shape and enrich the knowledge-based community of scholars.