How do investments in intellectual capital create profits?

International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 256-275

  Kujansivu, Paula ^a   Lönnqvist, Antti ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Calculated Intangible Value; CIV; IC; Intangible assets; Intellectual capital; Investments; Productivity; Profitability; VAIC ; Value Added Intellectual Coefficient

Indexed keywords

EID: 48649099171     PISSN: 14794853     EISSN: 14794861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLIC.2007.015610     Document Type: Article

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