Evolution of economic-theoretical approaches to the reproduction of intellectual capital
Abstract. The article considers the main features of the study of the problems of intellectual capital development within the framework of late neoclassical economic theory, institutionalism and neoinstitutionalism paradigms, and the post-neoclassical direction of economic thought. The specifics of the influence of basic socio-economic institutions on the formation and development of intellectual capital are highlighted. The features of the key methods of formation and development of intellectual capital, which are relatively widely used in modern foreign economic practice, are noted: the use of distance learning systems (e-learning), training individuals in entrepreneurial skills, the use of and participation in the improvement of intangible assets, the creation and provision of effective functioning of quality circles at enterprises, the organization of intrapre-neurship (intra-firm entrepreneurship). The main advantages and limitations of the potential use of these methods are indicated.
Keywords: intellectual capital, education, quality, method, intrapreneurship, benchmarking, startup.
Highlights:
- the efficiency of economic systems development in modern economic conditions directly depends on the quality of reproduction of intellectual capital; the work specifies the content of the economic concept of "intellectual capital of an individual";
- the intellectual capital of an individual is a complex of interrelated knowledge, skills, competencies, creative abilities formed on the basis of systemic accounting of institutional statics and dynamics, aimed at the most complete integration of their bearer into the structure of the labor market, obtaining a stable positive marginal income and increasingthe quality of life of an individual and his family; the relationship between the intellectual capital of individuals, firms and the national economy as a whole is shown;
- the reproduction of intellectual capital includes the process of consistent implementation of the stages of its production, distribution, exchange and consumption; the work supplements the classification of types of reproduction of intellectual capital of individuals according to such features as the organization of the reproduction process, the degree of its standardization, the internal balance of reproduction and the congruence of the latter with the processes of reproduction of intellectual capital of another level (employer organization, region, state), rationality and the degree of altruism of the results of reproduction.
Timur V. Fattakhov - Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan, Russia