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<h2 id="classification">Classification</h2> <p>Intellectual capital is normally classified as follows: </p> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Human_capital/Hxwb2I2P">Human capital</a>, the value that the employees of a business provide through the application of <a href="/facts/Skill/XKyAfgBg">skills</a>, <a href="/facts/Know-how/frcIh2Xv">know-how</a> and <a href="/facts/Expertise/W1BtG3h1">expertise</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a> – Human capital is an organization's combined human capability for solving business problems and exploiting its <a href="/facts/Intellectual_Property/PqHW9mVP">intellectual property</a>. Human capital is inherent in people and cannot be owned by an organization.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a> Therefore, human capital can leave an organization when people leave, and if the <a href="/facts/Management/8KMV9yMM">management</a> has failed to provide a setting where others can pick up their know-how. Human capital also encompasses how effectively an organization uses its people resources as measured by <a href="/facts/Creativity/8sNGv9no">creativity</a> and <a href="/facts/Innovation/aa7hadLw">Innovation</a>.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Structural_capital/n94oJNxv">Structural capital</a>, the supportive non-physical infrastructure, processes and <a href="/facts/Database/VYcpkevb">databases</a> of the organisation that enable human capital to function<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> – Structural capital includes processes, <a href="/facts/Patent/LjT2bG3A">patents</a>, and <a href="/facts/Trademark/B23H8IS0">trademarks</a>, as well as the organization's image, <a href="/facts/Organizational_structure/cnlCdHsz">organization</a>, <a href="/facts/Information_system/apcSzFLh">information system</a>, and proprietary <a href="/facts/Software/RP79lVSW">software</a> and databases. Because of its diverse components, structural capital can be classified further into organization, process and innovation capital. <a href="/facts/Organizational_capital/UYJrXj9h">Organizational capital</a> includes the organization philosophy and systems for leveraging the organization's capability. Process capital includes the techniques, procedures, and programs that implement and enhance the delivery of goods and services. Innovation capital includes <a href="/facts/Intellectual_property/PqHW9mVP">intellectual property</a> such as patents, trademarks and <a href="/facts/Copyright/7GHEWEx9">copyrights</a>, and intangible assets.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> Intellectual properties are protected commercial rights such as patents, <a href="/facts/Trade_secret/VgJ1cAz5">trade secrets</a>, copyrights and trademarks. Intangible assets are all of the other talents and theory by which an organization is run.</li> <li><a href="/facts/Relational_capital/nJUmMWPl">Relational capital</a>, consisting of such elements as <a href="/facts/Customer/oGqcqmhf">customer</a> relationships, supplier relationships, trademarks and <a href="/facts/Trade_name/0tbWP1Sn">trade names</a> (which have value only by virtue of customer relationships), <a href="/facts/License/xaP3U6ga">licences</a>, and <a href="/facts/Franchising/dfSecjw8">franchises</a> – The notion that customer capital is separate from human and structural capital indicates its central importance to an organization's worth.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> The value of the relationships a business maintains with its customers and suppliers is also referred as goodwill, but often poorly booked in corporate accounts, because of accounting rules.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a></li></ul> <h2 id="management">Management</h2> <p>The intangible nature of many knowledge products and processes, in combination with the increasing importance of their value in corporate balance sheets leads to a growing interest in management of intellectual capital. Creating, shaping and updating the stock of intellectual capital requires the formulation of a strategic vision, which blends together all three dimensions of intellectual capital (human, structural and relational capital) within the organisational context through exploration and exploitation, measurement and disclosure.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a> Therefore, the organisational value of intellectual capital is developed via an ongoing and emergent process focused on the capability to leverage, develop and change the dimensions.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> The <a href="/facts/Intellectual_capital_management/KvXy08zX">management of intellectual capital</a> is conceptualised as occurring via a multiple stage process, governed by an evolutionary logic. Intellectual capital management is defined as a cycle of four inter-related sets of practices: strategic alignment, exploration and exploitation, measurement, and reporting of intellectual capital.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a> </p><p>The recognizing and managing of intellectual capital within organizations is not always evident and straightforward; for example, what IC means differ from organization to organization; thus requiring a contextual understanding.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:24" href="#fn:24"><sup>24</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="exploitation">Exploitation</h2> <p>The management of intellectual capital is conceptualised as occurring via a multiple stage process, governed by an evolutionary logic.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:25" href="#fn:25"><sup>25</sup></a> For a business, translating the potential of its intellectual capital is crucial.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:26" href="#fn:26"><sup>26</sup></a> Works that focus on the subset, namely the <a href="/facts/Patent/LjT2bG3A">patents</a>, <a href="/facts/Copyright/7GHEWEx9">copyrights</a>, and <a href="/facts/Trade_secret/VgJ1cAz5">trade secrets</a>, ignore the benefits of their use with the business.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:27" href="#fn:27"><sup>27</sup></a> Other terms include "intangible assets".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:28" href="#fn:28"><sup>28</sup></a> While corporate reports often stress the value and the know-how of its staff, this crucial asset cannot be considered property. The term "<a href="/facts/Workforce/rg2g6n5W">workforce</a>-in-place" can be used as a category when companies with their staff are purchased.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:29" href="#fn:29"><sup>29</sup></a> Without that category, most of the excess purchase price over the tangible <a href="/facts/Book_value/TE7gSBTk">book value</a> would just appear as <a href="/facts/Goodwill_(accounting)/svp14RYx">goodwill</a>. In order to profit from intellectual capital, <a href="/facts/Knowledge_management/RjjnVmRe">knowledge management</a> has become a task for management.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:30" href="#fn:30"><sup>30</sup></a> Often, intellectual capital, or at least rights to it, are moved off-shore for exploitation, which entails risks that are hard to value.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:31" href="#fn:31"><sup>31</sup></a> The transfer of rights to intellectual capital to offshore <a href="/facts/Subsidiary/l25YN38x">subsidiaries</a> is a major enabler of <a href="/facts/Tax_avoidance/VSQoBdgo">corporate tax avoidance</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:32" href="#fn:32"><sup>32</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="measurement">Measurement</h2> <p>An intellectual capital audit is an <a href="/facts/Audit/u8mr4Xsd">audit</a> of a company's intellectual capital to monitor and oversee the intellectual capital of a firm in order to capitalize on intellectual capital already within the company, and to identify opportunities to increase the intellectual capital of the company.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:33" href="#fn:33"><sup>33</sup></a>: 86 </p><p>Early methods of intellectual capital measurement include the balanced scorecard (BSC) framework, the Skandia Navigator, and the Intangible Asset Monitor. Additionally, the Value-Added Intellectual Coefficient method (VAIC) was introduced in 1993 to measure the <i>value</i> created by intellectual capital.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:34" href="#fn:34"><sup>34</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="intellectual-capital-and-stock-returns-growth">Intellectual capital and stock returns growth</h2> <p>Changes in stock returns are primarily determined by external factors such as inflation, exchange rates, and socioeconomic conditions. Intellectual capital does not affect a company stock's current earnings. Intellectual capital contributes to a stock's return growth.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:35" href="#fn:35"><sup>35</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Edvinsson, Leif; Malone, Michael S. (1997). Intellectual Capital: Realizing Your Company's True Value by Finding its Hidden Brainpower. New York: HarperBusiness. ISBN 9780887308413. 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