Capital For Our Time:
The Economic, Legal, and Management
Challenges of Intellectual Capital
Capital For Our Time is among the first to bring together experts from widely different
fields to address the challenges of intellectual capital. It includes essays by cutting-edge
academics, economists, attorneys, researchers, intellectual capital managers, and CEOs, as
well as representatives of the venture capital, government, and trade association communities.
Prominent professionals discuss the impact of intellectual capital on national and corporate
performance, including:
- The role of ideas in economic growth.
- The effectiveness of the legal system in protecting idea-based
property rights.
- The demands of knowledge management.
- Investor, policy maker, and management
perspectives on valuing intellectual assets.
- The impact of intellectual capital on business relationships.
- Specific challenges of the Internet and the Genome Project.
- Impending changes and opportunities in the international regime.
- Intellectual capital and the innovation imperative.
Editor Nicholas Imparato is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, and a
professor of marketing and management at the University of San Francisco.
|