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Intellectual Capital and Company’s Value Creation Dynamics
No full textAlthough the strategic and management literature has dedicated
great attention on the role and relevance of intangible and cognitive resources
for company competitiveness, there is still a lack of consideration on an
in-depth investigation of the links and relationships between Intellectual
Capital (IC) and company’s value creation. This is a significant shortcoming
since companies are not interested in managing IC for itself, but rather
than in the value they can get from explicitly and formally addressing the
assessment and management of IC. For this reason the investigation of how IC
sustains and drives company’s value creation dynamics is a key issue to be
addressed. IC contributes both to define the value of a company and to support
the organisation performance improvements towards the achievement of
company’s strategic value propositions. In this introduction to the special issue
we develop some conceptual interpretations to investigate the position of IC..
Sustainable knowledge community precincts : lessons from global best practices
No full textIn the era of global knowledge economy, urban regions—seeking to increase their competitive edge, become destinations for talent and investment, and provide prosperity and quality of life to their inhabitants—have little chance achieving their development goals without forming effective knowledge-based urban development (KBUD) strategies. KBUD paradigm suggests that the economic future of cities increasingly depends on the capacity to attract, generate, retain and foster creativity, knowledge and innovation—and make space and place for knowledge generation and knowledge communities. Thus, the paper aims to shed light on the planning and development processes of the KBUD phenomenon with respect to the construction of sustainable knowledge community precincts (KCPs) aimed at making space for knowledge generation and place for knowledge communities—and provide useful lessons for the developing country cities seeking such sustainable and KBUD
Knowledge based protection for ancient city centres
No full textWith the support of a case study, the paper describes the impact of technological transfer to anticipate the degradation processes in outdoor collective spaces. Taking into account the historic center of Salerno, the paper discusses an urban regeneration experience based on remote monitoring and permanent maintenance with innovative technologies. Thanks to a synergy between the University and the Superintendence, knowledge and innovation become motors of active protection and development with the creation of a laboratory of urban sustainability. The paper identifies a knowledge based approach as the means to promote outdoor spaces identity, with the affirmation of inner inherent dynamism, internal and external connection. Knowledge based active protection is here identified with a process of anticipation, vigilance and planning of vulnerabilities, informed to the logic of responsibility sharing between users and managers, coordinating design choices. Condition for an active protection is the complementarily of information, experience and expertise, for the preservation and promotion of the built capital. Reconciling multi-scalar and multi-sector approaches, active protection brings into play an idea of the settlement as an interconnected system, where design scenarios arise from the complexity of the relationships between spaces, performances and instances. The awareness of users, creating a sense of ownership, are conditions to support these processes, acting on the components of identity, heritage and memory
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