Talk:Intellectual capital
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I think you missed the liberal economist view, von Hayek, Schumpeter, Pirole ecc. that is very sceptical of Intellectual Capital.
It seems like there was a gap between industrial economy and business lobbyists.
Who wants to bet that this gets hacked with a Stallmanic rant? A Rand rant?
Tolerance is appreciated - these critiques are welcome but please try to remember that outside fringe circles economics don't see Stallman or Rand as major contributors.
One way to approach those issues is that Stallman is big on the instructional value, and subordinating individual contribution to that, whereas Rand is the other way around, seeing all instructional value coming from the individual... but these are extreme views.
Ultimately, those views belong here - and *NOT* in the instructional capital or individual capital entries which are much less controversial notions than this.
Keeping this entry separate is one way to keep the rants away from the economics.
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OK, this is as objective as I can possibly make it. If someone wants to define "political economy" in a way that can take the heat off this entry, good, but there remains a distinct literature of intellectual capital - not wise to ignore it.
I mentioned most of the major theorists in this area. not clear if Lev's idea of "brand capital" deserves a separate article. An article outlining both Baruch Lev and Naomi Klein as "pro-brand" and "anti-brand" is probably worth writing. But their distinctions are critical to explaining how or why "intellectual" could exclude "social", as in this article, so it may become somewhat redundant. Klein objects to brand capital but not to intellectual capital - Shiva is more fundamental so she's covered here.
Gabora is very fundamental and actually making an argument relative to political economy itself - but is worth mentioning here only because the whole issue of "intellectual capital" existing or not is one of whether individuals and instructions can actually be traded off by any process of management, or always play quantitatively different roles...
Badly needs a good article on intellectual property law to explain just where this whole idea of a unified "intellectual capital" came from.
[edit] Human and structural capital as parts of intellectual capital
I'm curious why this article doesn't talk about the underpinnings of the intellectual capital concept. There is a link to the web site of Dr. Nick Bontis but there doesn't seem to be anything in the Wikipedia article about the research work that Bontis and others have done.
I'm also surprise that there is nothing about Skandia insurance and their efforts to pull together measurements of intellectual capital. The Skandia Navigator is an interesting tool.
There should at least be something about the two major components of intellectual capital, human capital or the knowledge and skills of the human beings in the organization which are theirs to take with them and structural capital or the infrastructure (facilities and business processes) which are owned by the organization.
See Intellectual Capital by Leif Edvinsson and Michael S. Malone
<-- I totally agree with you. The orginal authors seemed to be unaware of this important literature. I added some relevant references in, but haven't had the time to modify the page. Go ahead and make the changes! <g> LMackinnon 11:58, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Question
link title Does anyone know whether the website publishing Baruch Lev's book has proper permission to post his book online? If it does not, this link should be removed and reported to Wikipedia. --MrMMattson
