Intellectual capital : concepts, characteristics and classifications

Abstract EN

This paper aims to clarify intellectual capital definitions, its characteristics and classifications.

It is more than just patents, copyrights, publishing, and other forms of intellectual property.

Intellectual capital includes the organizational knowledge, experience, relationships, operations, innovations, position in the market, impact on society, goodwill, and the mental image that external public creates about it.

Its most important characteristics are: intangibility, impossible to imitate; bigger intensity of using intellectual resources increases their value and creates future long term benefits.