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Dear Colleague,

To understand how universities create value for society we have to look for their vision and mission formulation. Basically, a university should provide high quality for teaching and learning processes, create new knowledge through research and innovation, and transfer it toward society, and being involved in developing the community. However, teaching and learning should be understood in terms of developing in students thinking models and critical thinking attitudes, as well as leadership thinking. For instance, some of the best universities assert in their mission the idea of creating leaders to change the world.

Intellectual capital is essential for any university since it is the source and support for any achieving any vision a university may have. I attached two papers I published on that topic which might be of interest for you.

Best luck in your research,

Constantin Bratianu

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Dear colleague,

We know that intellectual capital represented on: human, structural and relational capital contribute on the adding value of all institutions including universities. especially structural capital that means all brevets and intellectual properties which created by the scientific and researchers in all scientific fields, so the university could emphasize its added value by selling licences and brevets to other institutions 

this is my point of view

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Other dimensions are community service, knowledge/information dissemination, character modelling etc. On social responsibility and value added service, the relationship is best explained by the quality and continuous desire of the institution to rendering quality educational services in diverse forms that may not only be via students but also through lectures, seminars and symposium for its immediate environment.

dear  Maher M Merhej

The value of educational institutions exist in a number of certificates Alaa owners such as master's and doctoral degrees, especially in the terms of reference actors in enriching the national economy

The problem today is there are no standards to measure intellectual capital in universities only reliability and quality standards and it is best that the estimated minds in addition to public capital in educational institutions, especially in government institutions either in the private sector

salim

You might be interested in the attached paper:

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Dear Maher,

First, intellectual capital has no much in common with "human, structural and relational capital". When first this term was introduced by Nahapiet, Janine, and Sumantra Ghoshal in their "Social capital, intellectual capital, and the organizational advantage." Academy of Management Review 23.2 (1998): 242-266, they used the term "intellectual capital" to refer to "the knowledge and knowing capability of a social collectivity, such as an organization, intellectual community, or professional practice" (Nahapiet and Ghoshal, 1998, p. 245).

Thus, any university by definition operates as an organization with a certain "intellectual capital"  (that can increase or decrease depending on knowledge and knowing capability of university's staff).

Second part of your question pertains to the creation of added value. Knowledge itself has no value (although it is power), it may (or) may not add value to results of actions to its users. Thus, we may calculate the effects of knowledge's use for different users of knowledge that use it in different ways (starting from simply knowledge brokers).

However, returning to Nahapiet and Ghoshal, we should also recognize the second part of intellectual capital of a university -- the capability of knowing. This part of intellectual capital is offered only for those who participate in "knowing" -- to the students and to the teachers. The biggest increase in added value for students from intellectual capital of a university is the increase of their chances to live a more worthy (not happy or wealthy) life. This is expressed in "A Commencement Address" of Joseph Brodsky (Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature, 1987) - see http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1984/08/16/a-commencement-address/

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1984/08/16/a-commencement-address/

see the triple helix model from Etzkowitz. I send some articles

I hope to make some contribuition

The prime function of an university is to develop intellectual capital through institutionalized knowledge transfer mechanism. An university is also a place for creation of new knowledge or refinement of existing knowledge through research and innovation. The value addition takes place through research and innovation, which creates competitive advantage by promoting the economic, social and environmental dimension of innovation. The factors of human capital are: intellectual capital, social capital and emotional capital, the combination of which brings success through creation of competitive advantage.