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We are now entering the least exciting chapter of the book. Unfortunately, to create a correct intellectual capital system, we believe it is necessary to understand what are the different categories and flows of intellectual capital: it is just a question of understanding what we are looking at. Trying to create an intellectual capital system without this understanding would be like flying blind and hoping for the best. In a way, if we resume our navigation metaphor, defining the categories and flows of IC is akin to defining the mountains, hills and rivers of the new terrain.
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Roos, J., Roos, G., Dragonetti, N.C., Edvinsson, L. (1997). Finding New Words. In: Intellectual Capital. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14494-5_2
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