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Intellectual Capital (IC) is the new base for the future advantage of firms and nations. A new political agenda is needed to visualise how knowledge flows in society. With the "longitude concept" –proposed by Edvinsson- organisations, regions and nations are capable to deal with the new challenges. To understand the wealth creation is easier with that "lateral perspective": a perspective that accounts for the intangible and non-financial assets of knowledge creation, culture and relationships. The IC analysis is evolved since 1991, with the author’s work at Skandia. There, he develops the Skandia Navigator, a system to assess IC in organisations. Nowadays, we need to map how the knowledge flows, from a chaordic vision, within nations. Some of them have developed interesting exercises, as the Nordic countries and Saudi Arabia, based on that Navigator. With these fresh ideas, we can foster the society entrepreneurship existing today. |
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Agoria Flanders is the multi-sector federation of
the technological industry in the Flanders state (Belgium), with 750
members.
It develops an annual "Innovation Policy Update",
and also an "Innovation Implementation Plan", to stimulate
innovation within its own member companies. This federation has other
projects in progress, aimed to create public awareness for science and
technology. |
