The LSE in London and the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin have for many years now been working on InCaS – a project aimed at valuing intellectual capital and promoting its distribution across the European SME community. The premise is that the lack of recognisition relating to the value of IC, and SME’s broad failure to share it, is limiting the EU’s competitive position when compared to Emerging Markets. Having been a private dinner at the LSE recently to listen to where the project has been and where it is going and to be there as someone to comment on both the value to SME’s and the potential for social computing to help promote the concept I was left thinking that initatives like this one “Killerstartup” give InCaS a proxy for an efficient mechanism for the creation of structures that will allow for the sharing of Intellectual Capital. The point is that the level of cooperation that InCaS is looking for is based on the assumption that there must be mutual gain between the parties that share. Allowing the “strongest” companies (ie the ones with the most prized intellectual capital in any given platform) the ability to rise to the top of a crowd sourced ranking will ensure that quality is promoted and collaboration for mutual gain is more easily achieved.

InCas now have the model for defining and valuing intellectual capital, a huge achievement. Now let the market dictate who has the most value to offer at any given time or in any given discipline.

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