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Uwarunkowania kreacji kapitału intelektualnego w polskich przedsiębiorstwach
Conditions of intellectual capital creation in Polish enterprises

Author(s): Anna Wildowicz-Giegiel
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
Keywords: intellectual capital; innovation; determinants of knowledge creation

Summary/Abstract: A contemporary enterprise builds its competitive advantage on the foundation of intellect. Enterprise development depends on the ability to use the possessed intellectual capital resources which embrace individual knowledge, experience, employees creativity, and all kind of codified knowledge called structural capital. Polish enterprises joining in global competition start also being conscious about the necessity of creating intellectual capital. The increase in intellectual capital potential is seen as a true challenge taking into account many institutional barriers which impede entrepreneurship and innovativeness of economic entities in Poland. The aim of the paper is to present the mechanism of intellectual capital creation in Polish enterprises including the institutional factors which hamper this process.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 245
  • Page Range: 622-632
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish