SPICE INDUSTRY

SPICE designed for Human Resources Development of representatives from academic institutions and the business sector to enhance their competences on: the deployment and management of Intellectual Capital (IC) resources and their transformations so as to maximize the present value of the organization’s value creation in the eyes of its stakeholders. Its main and specific objectives are:

• To connect educators and business organisations around a new body of knowledge regarding the needs of the knowledge economy
• To enhance competences on strategic IC management of university lecturers, based on action-learning in close cooperation with business executives
• To explore current strategic concepts in the knowledge economy and the foundations of breakthrough strategies in close cooperation between university lecturers and business executives

Management questions that lecturers and business executives repeatedly face with regard to the globalising context of the knowledge economy are:

• new business models and value creation within differing national and cultural contexts
• managing new risks associated with Intellectual property in Europe and Asia
• measurement, valuation and reporting IC in differing national and local contexts
• identification of the impeding social and cultural factors of economic growth in the target countries