Within an organization or company, the intellectual capital is the intellectual knowledge of that organization, the intangible information (that is not visible, and therefore, is not gathered nowhere) whom it owns and who can produce value.
This is a relatively recent concept and has been moved to different areas: the social, to the company, and even to the academic one.
Between his varied classifications, one of the most accepted is the differentiation of three blocks:
1. Human capital: the capacities, attitudes, skills and knowledge that each member of the company contribute and own, it means, they form individual assets, is not transferable. This capital cannot be owned by the company.
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2. Organizational capital. This includes all those elements of internal organizational type that implements the company to perform their functions optimally as possible. Among these issues are the databases, pictures of organization, manuals of processes, individual property (patents, trademarks or intangible element that can be protected by intellectual property rights) and all those things of value to the company is higher than the material.
Without a doubt, the suitable formula to manage the intellectual capital, considering these intellectual assets, is a determining factor for the progress of the company. In this sense, and like answer to this necessity or restlessness, numerous studies have been realised, and have arisen approaches that follow different lines of investigation but with a same objective. To mention some: humane, approach to development and innovation, process approach, economic or financial focus, among others.
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