Journal of Intellectual Capital: Volume 2 Issue 1

Management of intellectual property rights: Strategic patenting

Josephine Chinying Lang

This article reviews emergent global trends in intellectual property protection and identifies patenting as a strategic initiative. Recent developments in software and…

The management, measurement and the reporting of intellectual capital

James Guthrie

The rise of the “new economy”, one principally driven by information and knowledge, international competitiveness and changing patterns of interpersonal activities is attributed…

A conversation with Sharon L. Oriel of The Dow Chemical Company

Jay Chatzkel

Conversations create the wealth of knowledge organizations. This conversation with Sharon Oriel focuses on the evolution of the capture and leverage or intellectual capital assets…

Mapping intellectual capital in a small manufacturing enterprise

Michael S.H. Heng

The US$1.2 million company faces critical issues of management succession, business strategy, market expansion and innovative product improvements. These would prevent a steady…

Why does subjectivity make us nervous? : Making the tacit explicit

Devi Jankowicz

Many occupations require people to draw on their experience to make decisions based on intuition and subjective judgement; this includes craft‐ and skill‐based tasks, and the more…

Experience vs expertise: The role of implicit understandings of knowledge in determining the nature of knowledge transfer in two companies

Merle Jacob, Golaleh Ebrahimpur

This article builds on data from case studies of two companies in two different industries to show how local and tacit notions of what is knowledge determine what types of…