Lina Užienė

Kaunas University of Technology · Department of Strategic Management

The aim of this study is to reveal peculiarities of the national intellectual capital of the Baltic States and compare the Baltic States with the other European countries according to the condition of IC. For this purpose results of the empirical research, which measures national intellectual capital of European countries from 2007 to 2011, are dis...

Sustainable competitive advantage is a widely explored topic at the organizational level. Although, regions care about competitiveness as much as organizations, because it leads to improved welfare and economic performance. However, sustainable regional competitiveness is still an ambiguous concept. On the one hand, it considers long lasting econom...

Technology transfer offices (TTOs) play an important role in innovation ecosystems. There is a global strive to make these offices more efficient and improve their performance. This study aims to reason the key factors influencing the performance of TTOs at the members of the European Consortium of Innovative Universities (ECIU). To reach this aim,...

The study aims to empirically examine the influence of intellectual capital (IC) on the R&D performance of a firm. Study also investigates the role of potential and realized absorptive capacity in the association between IC and R&D performance. PLS-SEM was applied to examine the hypothesized relationships. Data are collected from 117 firms of the E...

Intellectual capital theory has been active for two decades already. Despite that many unanswered questions in theory and business practice are still left. Issues of intellectual capital essence, structure, measurement and its impact on business performance are still being researched. Managers constantly look for the new solutions of recognizing, m...

Intellectual Capital (IC) has played a major role in driving growth, competitiveness, and sustainability over decades, improving people's well-being and the economic performance of businesses. At the same time, the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have emerged as an integrated approach to sustainable development principles of pe...

In a hyper-competition era with the shadows by COVID-19 pandemic, nations as well as companies are competing for talents, high-technologies and innovations to sustain the economic performance and competitiveness. This study compares the NIC of two small economies, Lithuania and Taiwan, that both perform better than most countries during the pandemi...

There is almost no conceptual research explicitly directed at the understanding of the systemic effect of Industry 4.0 on organizational intellectual capital (IC). However, it is getting more important, especially under the complex influence of different disruptive technologies changing the working conditions organizations experience in their daily...

There is almost no conceptual nor empirical research explicitly directed at the understanding of the vulnerability of intellectual capital (IC). However, it is getting more important, especially under the influence of disruptive technologies. The aim of the study is to define the concept of vulnerability of IC as a relevant characteristic in the co...

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a new approach of regional intellectual capital (further RIC) identification leading to competitive regional development. In order to make RIC management decisions leading to competitive growth, it has to be identified and its relevance for a particular development purpose must be defined first. Therefore, th...

Knowledge management in health is merely focused on the formal healing protocols, and patient data management despite of the broad knowledge base available outside of the formal medical domains, and an important need to integrate it into the health management systems. However, there is very little known on how to integrate this diversity of knowled...

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Intangible resources are considered to be the foundation for national wealth creation within knowledge economy. While innovation is perceived as a key to unlock this potential and enhance national competitiveness. In order to foster innovation performance of EU countries European Commission has introduced many initiatives. However, the breakthrough...

There are lots of methods proposed in IC literature on how to measure IC of nations. Yet, none of them has been widely used among policy makers. Benchmarking is seen as the most common technique applied in national IC measurement. Advantages as well as disadvantages of benchmarking are referred in IC literature. However, comprehensive research on t...

Sustainable economic development is an aspiration of every nation in today's knowledge economy. Scientists for a few decades claim that intellectual capital management is the answer how to reach this goal. Currently, benchmarking methodology is the most common approach in the national intellectual capital measurement intended to provide information...

This study aims to identify variety of factors influencing enterprise IC measurement practice, structure them into the groups according their nature, and propose theoretical model serving as a base for the empirical research of their influence. Literature review of theoretical studies and empirical research is carried out in order to find out the r...

The main purpose of the paper is to identify challenges that occur developing strategies based on national intellectual capital (NIC) measurements. As it can be observed from IC literature, even though there are different methods to measure NIC, they are not commonly used among policy makers as a tool for strategic management decisions to raise com...

This study aims to discuss the link between open innovation, knowledge flows and intellectual capital. As far as the concept of open innovation is based on the knowledge in- and outflows across organizational boundaries, it makes influence on company's knowledge stock and has positive or negative impact on its intangible resource portfolio. The mai...

The aim of this study is to assess national intellectual capital of the Baltic States in the context of Europe and compare the results of assessment with other indicators of nations: GDP per capita, Human Development Index, rankings of the World Competitiveness Scoreboard. Results of empirical research carried out across 28 European countries in 20...

Corporate IC disclosure is becoming increasingly important due to the transformations of knowledge economy. There is no established and world‐widely accepted methodology for the IC disclosure. However, it has already become an integral part of annual corporate reports. The current practice of this field varies among countries and depends on a numbe...

It has been widely recognized that urban competitiveness relies on the reasonable management of the intellectual resource. This is not possible without having the proper resource inventory framework in place. The main purpose of this research is to explore the core and structure of city’s intellectual capital by constructing and thoroughly investig...

Intellectual capital measurement, as a problem of management research, is investigated for third decade already. Intellectual capital measurement methodology is still not well-established neither in management literature nor in business practice. Intellectual capital financial valuation methods are generally based on the data of financial accountin...

Summary: From the beginning of the new Information age intellectual capital became one of the key issues of business and academic research all over the world. Regarding to the changing information needs of investors and other stakeholders as well as the limitations of the traditional accountability system, companies often voluntarily disclose intel...

A turn from industrial to knowledge economy raised global interest in organizational intellectual capital phenomenon as a subject of business practice and scientific research. Organizational intellectual capital performance measurement is one of the most significant perspectives of research within the Intellectual Capital theory. Different authors...

A turn from industrial to knowledge economy raised global interest in organizational intellectual capital phenomenon as a subject of business practice and scientific research. Organizational intellectual capital performance measurement is one of the most significant perspectives of research within the Intellectual Capital theory. Different authors...

A turn from industrial economy to knowledge economy raised global interest in intellectual capital as a subject of business practice and scientific research. New management paradigm based on the Intellectual capital theory offers new management techniques and solutions, intended to identify, measure and manage organizational intellectual capital. P...

A turn from industrial economy to knowledge economy raised global interest in intellectual capital phenomenon as a subject of business practices and scientific research. Relevancy of intellectual capital assessment is emphasized by almost all intellectual capital theory researches. Despite that, united attitude towards intellectual capital assessme...