Higher educations institutions are crucial institutional actors in the national innovation systems and are immersed in important transformation processes that aim to make them more competitive, dynamic and transparent. Given the new pressures and demands of the rapidly changing environment, universities throughout Europe are forced to adapt their organizational structures and incorporate strategic management systems to run their affairs more efficiently. In this sense, they need a more managerial approach in order to deal successfully with all the challenges of the new scenario.
Accordingly, the main aim of is this article is twofold. On one hand, to discuss a concept that have emerged in the specialised literature at the end of the last decade, “managerial university”, and, on the other hand, present the rationale for implementing the Intellectual Capital (IC) framework in universities as a valuable way to deal with the new managerial and transparency requirements.

The generation and improvement of personal competences in the universities, reveal those behaviours of the professionals who better carry out their work or a certain paper thus managing to separate what we could call factors or performances of success, that are pronounced through the management of the intellectual capital. It is tried to explain the management of the intellectual capital as a tool for the generation and improvement from the frame of the personal competitions in the scope of the universities. By means of concepts associated to the management of the intellectual capital, on the one hand, studying the tendencies and more important approaches related to the management of the intellectual capital, recognizing its importance like resource within the approach of competitions, by another.

Nowadays, it is clear that innovation is a network process where every economic agent takes part. The main objective of this process is to attend the demand of the market as soon as possible getting the best success. In this framework of reference, the cooperation through technology transfer mechanisms between university and industry constitute an explicity necessity, which is very complex. With the aim to define the third mission of the university related to its capability to transfer and share scientific-technological knowledge to the industry, this article has a double objective: to identify the factors which make an easier technological cooperation between both actors, and to identify those elements which contribute to stop the process.

Although the short number of Technology-based New Firms (TBNF) existing within Spanish economy, they develop a key role in it. The Lisbon 2000 Summit set up the European compromise with the objective of become the most dynamic and competitive economy in the world. This paper tries to shed light on the debate about the TBNF creation and necessities, because they are one of the essential bases for growth and welfare in the innovation economy.

This article tries to give a frame that allows to differentiate the concepts data, information and knowledge in the company context, as well as glimpses the roll that such concepts have in the efficient company decision making, enunciate reflections surroundings to the exposition of a factual universe according to which a new sequence in the knowledge generation exists and the form is described in which the knowledge takes place. Finally it is postulated to the individual like a incremental resource of information.