Know-How in Europe
InCaS:Intellectual
Capital Statement: Made in Europe
Unlocking the Value
Europe
has a long history of science and innovation – great
economies were built and succeeded by clever and
industrious companies. Today Europe needs to get back to
doing what it does best in a competitive global
environment.
Europe needs to use its knowledge and know-how to survive
and play a part in the word economy. To do that we need to
understand the value and value the understanding of our
‘know–how’ also called “Intellectual Capital”.
InCaS is a business project that addresses this issue and
goes towards filling the gap. InCaS is a collaboration
between leading academic institutes such as LSE, Fraunhofer
and UPC who have a proven track record in producing output
relevant to the market and a number of SME associations in
five countries working with real live SME companies. InCaS
aims to develop a way of being able to understand, value
and represent Intellectual Capital for the benefit of
companies internally but also to outside groups such as the
financial community for further and better
exploitation.
InCaS is led by CEA-PME in Brussels, a dynamic business
association with members in many European countries.
CEA-PME sees InCaS as a catalyst for the greater awareness
of the importance of know-how and its development. It has
used member organisations to find 25 pilot SMEs to use the
method.
There has been a lot of enthusiasm among the companies –
from 3 – to 400 salaries, as they can see the potential of
improving their performance. There have been a rich set of
human stories that show how InCaS can be applicable to
other companies more widely in the European economy.
You can see this for youself by watchin the
InCaS Case Sudy about the
Engineering Business Unit of Sidasa,
a Spanish SME
InCaS has the potential to improve performance, across many
aspects of a company’s operations – if you translate that
into European terms it could easily be billions of Euros!
Watch out for more news from CEA-PME and InCaS.