Intellectual Capital Assessment Models in Clusters: A Literature Review
Keywords:
Cluster, Intellectual capital, Assessment models.Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on intellectual capital in clusters in order to identify and compare the main models to measure at the cluster level. A systemic literature review was carried out using the most important bibliographic database Scopus and the most important journal on intellectual capital: journal of intellectual capital. The search covered the period from 2004 to 2016.
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