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Steady knowledge production and a great innovative capability are crucial attributes, if not necessary prerequisites, that companies need to be and remain competitive on today's market. The open innovation approach provides an opportunity within this article to increase companies' innovative capability. The article also deals with the question as to how intellectual capital can be measured in the innovation process.
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Bischoff, S., Vladova, G., Jeschke, S. (2013). Measuring Intellectual Capital. In: Jeschke, S., Isenhardt, I., Hees, F., Henning, K. (eds) Automation, Communication and Cybernetics in Science and Engineering 2011/2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33389-7_2
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