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Further reading on Intellectual Capital

Intellectual capital has its own fast-growing academic literature. Some seminal sources are given below:-

Stewart T A (1997) Intellectual capital – the new wealth of organizations. Nicholas Brealey, London.

Edvinnson L and Malone M S (1997) Intellectual capital. Piatkus, London.

Roos J, Roos G, Dragonetti N C and Edvinnson L (1997) Intellectual capital – navigating the new business landscape. MacMillan Business, Basingstoke.

Sveiby K E (1997) The new organizational wealth – managing and measuring knowledge-based assets. Berrett-Koehler, San Francisco.

For a stylish and readable introduction to the subject, we recommend the paperback edition of Thomas Stewart's book. 

At the IC World Congress, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, in January 2003, Richard presented a paper entitled:-

Reporting intangible assets: drawing generic conclusions from enterprise-specific measures of intellectual capital.

Click on  Richard's Canada paper  to download. 

The term Intellectual Capital was coined by John Kenneth Galbraith in 1969.

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