Conferences
and workshops
Past
conferences
Future
conferences
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6-8 November 2000
- Information Society
Technologies - IST 2000 Nice: Workshop on intangible investment, intellectual
capital and the new economy (France)
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23-24 November
2000 - Conference on "innovation
and enterprise creation: statistics and indicators" ( Nice - France)
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November
23, 2000 - The Danish intellectual capital
statements Project conference (Denmark)
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15-17
November 2000 - ISTAT 5th
national conference (Italy)
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May
17-18, 2001 - the 4th
Intangible conference (USA)
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March 19-20,
2001, Workshop on
intangibles - Swedish presidency (Sweden)
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April
18-20, 2001 - European
Accounting Association Annual
Congress (Greece)
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January 22-25,
2001 - Work Life 2000 (Sweden)
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January 17-19, 2001
- The 4th Congress
on Intellectual capital (Canada)
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Past
conferences
OECD
1999 International Symposium on Intellectual capital
In June 1999, OECD organised a
Symposium in Amsterdam in co-operation with the Netherlands Ministry of Economic
Affairs and Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, and the Nordic
Industrial Fund. Additional support has been provided by the Canadian
Institute of Chartered Accountants, The Ernst
& Young Center for Business Innovation, the European
Commission (DG Enterprise and Education, Training and Youth), and the Institute
of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
This workshop addressed the
technical feasibility of improving the quality and comparability of information
on intellectual capital, the demand for higher-quality information, the use of
this information and possible strategies for increasing transparency and
improving information on intellectual capital.
Bringing together business
executives, investors, accountants, governmental officials and others with an
interest in intellectual capital, it consisted of two parts:
- a Technical Meeting gathered research
teams and companies they work with to consider the feasibility
of developing intellectual capital indicators. Researchers and
company representatives reviewed results of recent surveys of
1800 companies, and case studies and experimentation in 125
companies in OECD member countries. It was underlined that it is
the combination of intellectual and tangible capital of a
company that creates value. However, they still are not measured
or reported adequately, even if some progress in measurement and
reporting by companies has been noted;
- a Policy and Strategy Forum considered
policy issues and possible next steps for improving information
on intellectual capital. Within this Forum, a broad range of
stakeholders from companies, governments, trade unions,
accountants, standards setters, and the academic community
addressed the question of how to facilitate development of
internal and external company reporting of intellectual capital.
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Conclusions
of the Policy and Strategy Forum
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Forum
chairman, Stuart Hornery, chairman of Lend-Lease
Corporation, drew the following conclusions:
1.The
process of value creation in companies
is changing. There is a need for better
information on intellectual capital, its
relation to tangible capital, and its
role in value creation. Financial data
are evolving, but, alone, present
insufficient information.
2.
International organisations, governments,
standards setters and other stake
holders should encourage experimentation
that would lead to general principles or
guidelines for reporting key indicators
of intellectual capital and information
on value creation. They should
systematically monitor and evaluate the
results of such experimentation.
3. There
is broad support for the creation of a
framework for voluntary compilation at
the enterprise level of a number of key
indicators using all possible approaches,
including company benchmarking. The
framework for reporting should focus on
areas that matter most to company
performance.
4.
Employees, suppliers, and customers are
involved increasingly in the value
creation process. Improvements in
reporting should aim to inform them
better.
5. There
is a need for better understanding of
the innovations in reporting. New
approaches are moving towards Internet
based real-time reporting; greater
availability of information means that
more information about a company comes
from multiple sources. As a result, more
internal information is available
externally.
6.
Businesses are concerned that disclosure
of information on intellectual capital
and value creation should be useful to
business, as well as stakeholders. Many
are actively experimenting. It is,
however, too early to consider mandatory
changes in rules affecting such
disclosure. Any requirements need to be
mindful of costs and benefits.
7.
Participants at the symposium expressed
the desire to continue to collaborate on
these issues.
Source:
OECD
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The OECD
web site on intangibles contains the main papers resulting from this
workshop as well as an extensive bibliography. They are subdivided in Policy
Papers, Background Papers and Technical Papers.
HRCA Network (Human Resource
Costing and Accounting) conference
The HRCA Network meet
regularly. It first met in Stockholm in June 1995, then in Stirling in 1996 and
again in Stockholm in 1998 under the form of workshop around paper
presentations. The 2000 workshop took place in Stokholm on June 13, on "Measuring
and Managing the Invisible".
Work Life 2000 -
Preparatory Workshops
In order to prepare the Swedish
Presidency, a total of about 70 preparatory workshops have been and will
be held on important EU subjects between 1998 and 2000. The
"Workshop Statements" will subsequently serve as input to
sessions at the conference which will take place on January 22-25, 2001.
In that framework, two workshops were
held in Brussels on the topic on intangible assets:
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in September 1998, a
"Human Capital workshop" on "The Value of
Investing in the Workforce";
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in February 1999 on "How
To Manage And Account for Intangibles: Voluntary
guidelines on the disclosure of intangibles: a Bridge
over troubled water?".
The Danish intellectual capital statements Project: technical international workshop
A technical international workshop
on intellectual capital statements took place on 22-23 February 2000 in the
framework of the Danish intellectual capital statements Project.
Organised by the Danish Agency for Trade and
Industry, the very first draft of guidelines for intellectual capital statements was
presented and discussed at the workshop. The participants were divided
into 4 parallel workshop session each discussing a different theme:
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Topics
discussed
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Group 1
Title: Company perspective
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- Relevance
of Intellectual Capital
Statement (ICS)
- ICS
– Communication or management
tool?
- Reporting
the Intellectual Capital
- Challenges
- The
Guideline
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Group 2
Title: Financial perspective
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- Benefits
from Intellectual Capital
Statements (ICS)
- Quality
of information
- Complexity
of the model
- Alternative
solutions for investors
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Group 3
Title: Accounting perspective
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- What
should be verified?
- Who
should do the verification of
ICS’?
- The
future role of the classical
auditor
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Group 4
Title: Innovation and competence perspective
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- Should
the ICS reflect innovative
perspective?
- If the
answer is YES, how could it be
done?
- Description
of employees bringing knowledge
to the company – Is it
possible?
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The summaries and slides from
the 4 parallel workshop sessions can be downloaded on EFS web site. Based on the interim results,
researchers connected to the project have prepared and presented draft guidelines. This
framework describes the building blocks of the kind of IC statements that the
Ministry for trade and industry wants Danish companies to develop.
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Contact
The
Danish Agency for Trade and
Industry (EFS)
Dahlerups Pakhus
LangelinieAllé 17 DK - 2100 Copenhagen Ř
Tel. + 45 3546 6000 - Fax + 45 35 86 86 87
Gitte Hansen : gh@efs.dk
- + 45 35 46 63 37
Benedikte Stakemann: bst@efs.dk
+45 35 46 63 44
IC Statements Project:
http://www.efs.dk/icaccounts/ |
Symposium of Louvain-La-Neuve
- April 1999
Organised at the initiative of P. Buigues (DG III
- Entreprise), A. Jacquemain (Forward Studies Unit and DG XII -
Research) and J.F. Marchipont (DG XII - Research), this
conference aimed to assess the growing importance of intangible
assets and the change of competitiveness sources;
A publication resulting from this
Symposium has been published on May 25, 2000 ("Competitiveness and
the Value of Intangible assets" Jacquemin (ed) Edwar Elgar). The publication provides a
theoretical and empirical analysis of intangible investment and its
effect on public policy in Europe. The authors find that the growing
importance of intangibles is transforming the direction of public
policies in Europe, particularly industrial, R&D, competition and
trade policies. They conclude that government policies must recognise
the fact that intangible investment is becoming the key element in
bringing about durable growth and attribute at least the same priority
to intangible factors as to physical investment.
Information Society Technologies - Helsinki
- November 1999
A workshop took place within the
framework of IST 99 conference in November 1999 Helsinki "Exploring
the Information Society". Entitled "Intellectual
Capital / Intangible Investments: How much is your business
worth ?", it was coordinated by Ronald Mackay of the
European Commission. In the workshop synthesis, one can read the
following main issues :
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industry is aware that
knowledge management is a key factor for business value
but at present there is a need of indicators to measure
the performance of a company
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this problem transcends all
aspects of business management (accounting, corporate
investment strategy, disclosure of information and
aspects of economic management, etc.). "It needs to
be tackled jointly by the various institutional actors
on an inter-disciplinary basis".
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it is very urgent to recognise
at a policy level the need to invest more in intangibles
(R&D, innovation, training and market)
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all sectors are concerned.
The participants asked
for new debates and discussions on these issues, in particular with high
level managers. "The sense of the meeting was that the Commission
should take an initiative in this". The Final
report is available at www.ispo.cec.be/ecommerce/issues/intangibles/WS_full_report.html
The topic of Intangibles will
be on the agenda of IST 2000 in Nice.
Conference
: "Il valore degli Intangible Asset" March 2000 - Italy
Summit-TMI,
a consulting company partner of the Scandinavian company TMI, specialised in
education and training consultancy, has organised in March 2000 a conference on
the value of intangible assets with Stefano Zambon among speakers (Il valore
degli Intangible Asset).
Voorburg Group meeting -
September 18-22, 2000
The next meeting will be held
on September 18-22, 2000 in Madrid, Spain. A complete list and all the papers
presented to and discussed at the Voorburg Group meetings since its inception
are available on the Voorburg Group web-site.
Future
conferences
6-8 November 2000 - Information Society
Technologies - IST 2000 Nice: Workshop on intangible
investment, intellectual capital and the new economy
The IST event is organised each
year by the European Commission Information Society Directorate-General, to
promote results of its Information
Society Technologies (IST) Programme and present main orientations of the
European Union regulatory activities in the ICT (Information & Communication
Technologies) field. The IST 2000 event will also focus on the European
Commission's 
Initiative. The general theme is "An Information Society for All".
This year, the IST event is held in close co-operation with the French
Government in the framework of the French Presidency of the European Union.
In that framework, there will be a
workshop on intangible investment, intellectual capital and the new economy, coordinated by Ronald
MacKay from DG Information Society.
The workshop will focus on the different
groups of actors who are closely involved in these activities. Speakers will
address the specific viewpoints of managers, investors, accountants, and
employees. They will report on recent developments and outline their
expectations for the future.
The aim of the workshop is to arrive at a
road-map for future research, take-up and accompanying measures which will lead
to a new paradigm for dealing with Intellectual Capital and Intangible
Investments.
This is the 2nd IST Workshop on Intellectual Capital/Intangible Investments. The
first, held in Helsinki in 1999, focused on ongoing
research and examples of industrial best practice in this field.
You may download on this site the leaflet
and draft agenda (PDF file - 180 ko).
23-24 November
2000 - Conference on "innovation
and enterprise creation: statistics and indicators" - Nice
The Enterprise DG (Innovation and
SME programme) and EUROSTAT are jointly organising, on 23 and 24 November 2000
in Sophia Antipolis (France), an international conference which will review
recent development in the area of growth and innovation processes. The aim is to
achieve an exchange of understanding and experience between those developing,
collecting and analysing indicators and statistics on innovation, and those who
are expected to use indicators to formulate realistic and evidence-based
policies. In particular, measuring intangibles and the knowledge base at firm
and sector levels will be a key issue.
November 23, 2000: The Danish intellectual capital
statements Project conference
The final results of the Danish intellectual capital
statements Project will be presented during a national conference on November,
23 2000 to be held in Copenhaguen.
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Contact
The
Danish Agency for Trade and
Industry (EFS)
Dahlerups Pakhus
LangelinieAllé 17 DK - 2100 Copenhagen Ř
Tel. + 45 3546 6000 - Fax + 45 35 86 86 87
Gitte Hansen : gh@efs.dk
- + 45 35 46 63 37
Benedikte Stakemann: bst@efs.dk
+45 35 46 63 44
IC Statements Project: http://www.efs.dk/icaccounts/ |
15-17 November 2000 - ISTAT
5th
national conference
On November 15-17 2000, ISTAT will organise the
5th
national conference of Statistics dedicated to Innovazione tecnologica e
informazione statistica - Technological Innovation and Statistical Information.
This conference will also host the Statistical Information Exhibition, where
organisations belonging to Italy's National Statistical System (SISTAN) and
institutes of statistics from other countries will present their achievements on
new sources and indicators representative of a society undergoing a rapid and
general evolution.
May 17-18, 2001 - the 4th
Intangible conference
Organised in the framework of
"The Intangible Research project", the
Intangible conference will be dedicated to "Investment in Knowledge:
Valuation of Knowledge Intensive Enterprise and Asset".
The Intangible Research
Centre has already organised three "Intangible conferences":
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The first
conference (May 1998) focused on the relationship between
intangibles and capital markets.
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The second conference (May 1999) looked at the managerial and
organisational aspects of intangible investments.
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The last conference took place in May 18-19 2000 and it was
devoted to intangible investments (intellectual capital), in
particular the scientific foundations of knowledge management.
19-20 March 2001
- Workshop on
intangibles - Swedish presidency
This workshop will take place in
Växjo (South of Sweden) within the framework an an SMEs conference.
18-20 April,
2001 - European
Accounting Association Annual
Congress
EAA organises an annual congress
with approximately 1,000 people attending the presentation of around 300 papers
on current issues and trends. The topic of intangible assets is regularly
addressed. In 1999, the congress was held in Bordeaux (France). In 2000, it was
held in Munich
on March 29-31. Examples of papers presented on
intangible assets:
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Is Accounting Information
Loosing Relevance? Some Answers from Spain
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Management, Control and
Valuation of Intangible Assets: the Case of Brands
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Intellectual Capital: Current
Issues and Policy Implications
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Intangible Assets: The
Auditability Viewpoint
In 2001, it will take place in
Athens on 18-20 April (Greece) and in 2002 in Copenhagen (Denmark).
Work Life 2000 - January 22-25
2001
Sweden will hold the
Presidency for the first six months of 2001. It is planned to hold an
event on intellectual capital during this period on January 22-25, 2001.
January 17-19, 2001 - The 4th
World Congress
on Intellectual capital
The Intellectual Capital
Congress will take place on January 17-19, 2001 in Hamilton, Ontario (Canada).
This Congress is recognised
globally as the largest and most prestigious conference of its kind. It brings
both academic researchers and professional practitioners together to present,
discuss and review the latest issues and innovations in the areas of
intellectual capital and knowledge management. The 1996, 1998 and 1999 World
Congresses on Intellectual Capital attracted approximately 1,000 delegates (practitioners,
academics and Ph.D. students) from over 25 countries.
The main themes of the 2000
congress include intellectual capital as well as knowledge management,
organisational learning, and the management of innovation and new technology.
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Topics
of the 4th
Congress on Intellectual capital:
A.
Trends in managing intellectual capital,
organisational knowledge, organisational
learning, innovation and new technology
B. Competitive strategies in the
information economy and knowledge era
C. Tools to manage investment in people
skills, information bases, knowledge
portals and vortals, KM suites and
technological capabilities
D. Measuring "return on investment"
in a knowledge-based society
E. Accounting for knowledge assets and
technological resources
F. Organising for intellectual capital
assets and knowledge workers
G. Managing "innovation teams"
and "knowledge sharing"
cultures
H. Rewarding innovators - even when
innovations fail!
I. International differences and
similarities in culture and leadership
as it pertains to managing knowledge -
the role of CKOs and CLOs
J. Managing transfers of intellectual
capital and best practices
K. The ethics of new technology and
knowledge management
L. Public policies for the innovation
society and for the protection and
privacy of intellectual capital
M. Legal considerations in managing
intellectual capital and knowledge
N. Knowledge management and intellectual
capital education: curriculum design,
program evaluations, cases and
pedagogical techniques
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