In the knowledge economy, the value of corporations is directly related to their knowledge and intellectual capital. But broaden the perspective a little wider and you begin to see the possibilities: Think of cities, regions, even entire nations, in addition to the public sector. If intangibles and intellectual capital are important to the private sector, they are also important to the productivity and competitiveness of the public sector, and so to communities and nations as a whole. In this book, Editors Ahmed Bounfour and Leif Edivinsson have brought together the best minds in intellectual capital throughout the world to focus on a new and fertile area of research: measuring and managing the intellectual capital of communities. This is a creative and cutting-edge area of research that has the potential to change how public sector planning and development is done. Once there is a clear way to identify where wealth is created in a given region/nation, this process has the potential to reveal a huge knowledge repository in the public sector with a significant-but idle-potential for collective wealth creation-the wealth of nations in waiting.

Ahmed Bounfour, Leif Edvinsson

Part One Modeling and Contextualizing Intellectual Capital for Communities; Chapter 1 Modeling Intangibles, Ahmed Bounfour; Chapter 2 Regional Intellectual Capital in Waiting, Leif Edvinsson; Part two Intellectual Capital for Nations; Chapter 3 Estimating the Level of Investment in Knowledge Across the OECD Countries, Mosahid Khan; Chapter 4 Knowledge Economies, Jean-Eric Aubert; Chapter 5 Investing in Intangibles, Leonard Nakamura; Chapter 6 Intangibles and Intellectual Capital in the European Investment Bank Project Appraisal, Jean-Jacques Mertens, Jacques Van der Meer; Chapter 7 Assessing Performance of European Innovation Systems, Ahmed Bounfour; Chapter 8 National Intellectual Capital Index, Nick Bontis; Chapter 9 The Intellectual Capital of the State of Israel, Edna Pasher, Sigal Shachar; Chapter 10 Rethinking Leadership in the Knowledge Society, Bernhard Von Mutius; Chapter 11 Japan and Other East Asian Economies Under the Knowledge-Based Economy, Seiichi Masuyama; Part three Intellectual Capital for Regions; Chapter 12 Value Creation Efficiency at National and Regional Levels, Ante Pulic; Chapter 13 A European Regional Path to the Knowledge Economy, Dimitri Corpakis; Chapter 14 Intellectual Capital Creation in Regions, Anssi Smedlund, Aino Pöyhönen; Chapter 15 Ragusa or How to Measure Ignorance, Klaus North, Stefanie Kares; Chapter 16 Can the State Stimulate the Creation of Regional Networks? Experiences from the Virtual Marketplace Bavaria Initiative, Hans-Joachim Heusler, Hans Schedl; Chapter 17 The Region's Competence and Human Capital, Lars Karlsson; Part four Intellectual Capital for Cities and Local Communities; Chapter 18 Learning-By-Playing, Albert A. Angehrn; Chapter 19 Cities' Intellectual Capital Benchmarking System (CICBS), José María Viedma Marti; Chapter 20 Intellectual Capital for Communities, Ahmed Bounfour;