Intellectual Capital itself is a new idea. What you can research is how intellectuals are able to market their ideas in order to attract capital, even when it is still at an idea stage. So many breakthrough ideas get killed at the idea stage itself, as the thinkers are unable to attract capital required for the development from idea to a prototype o commercial success.
The confluence of big data and intellectual capital in today's BIG DATA era, in support of the fourth stage of intellectual capital. For more insight take a deeper look at the following paper:
Secundo, G., Del Vecchio, P., Dumay, J., & Passiante, G. (2017). Intellectual capital in the age of Big Data: establishing a research agenda. Journal of Intellectual Capital, 18(2), 242-261.
Corpoarate governance and intellectual capital. One of the persistent problems facing corporate governance is the increasing shift toward knowledge‐intensive organisations. responsibility of corporate governance is creating, developing, and leveraging the intellectual capital. For more reading and get best idea please look at the following paper:
Keenan, J. and Aggestam, M. (2001), Corporate Governance and Intellectual Capital: some conceptualisations. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 9: 259-275. doi:10.1111/1467-8683.00254
Shahveisi, F., Khairollahi, F., & Alipour, M. (2017). Does ownership structure matter for corporate intellectual capital performance? An empirical test in the Iranian context. Eurasian Business Review, 7(1), 67-91.
For those of us from Africa, the very rich indigenous knowledge in Africa, remains an untapped intellectual capital base that African scholars must begin to economically unravel for the betterment of our African societies the African way.