Intellectual Capital Research

This dissertation makes a very comprehensive and systematic study of knowledge capital guided by Marxist dassic theory about economy and aimed at enriching and advancing the the- ory about socialist market economy. Meanwhile it approaches these problems with various studying methods, such as historical examination and lcgical analysis, standard and prstive analysis, qualitative and quantitative analysis, reality d~ervation and theoretical generalization, comparison and induction and so cii m a combining way. The wide dissertation consists of seven parts induding an introdurtory part, ocnduding part and the rest separate five chapters. The introductory chapter studies market economy and capital. It makes a cxxnprehensive and systematic study and exploraticn of the operational mncxles of market ~nomy and the ex- tensive and permanent nature of capital in a general term. It points out for the first time that the knowledge economy that has begun to take shape is still a kind of economy that operates in a way of market economic operations. So this chapter darifies the background, theoretical foundation and significance of the ch~en theme which are the major premises for the wide paper. Chapter One discusses the ~xnimerdalization of knowledge. It makes a rather compre- hensive and systematic study and exploration of the contents, classification, and cctnnxxlity features of knowledge, as well as the conditions and ways of its commercialization. In addi- tim, the chapter studies the value forms of commercialized knowledge and how to realize them, and also examines the evdutionary course of knowledge prodtEts and the crxnmercializa- don of knowledge. My prindpal viewpoints are as follows. First, knowledge is a product of human labor. It has a quite different dassification, and pcssesses some separate features from material products and Cxxnrmn service products. The production of knowledge takes on an accelerating trend. Second, knowledge has the same features as ainnxn comnxdities in the context of mar- ket economy. Both the existence of the surplus of knowledge products and the establishment of th& free exchange and the system of private property right for them are the two preconditions for the ccxnnErcia]ization of knowledge products. This course is a kEg one. The symbcI of the former precondition is the beginning of European Renaissance and the establishment of modern educaticn system, as well as the invention and wide use of paperrnaking and block printing. .3. The symbol of the latter one is the widespread establishment of the systan about knowledge property right protection. Third, the main ways of commercializing knowledge are the various schzcA education and publication. Now the other ways such as direct selling, all kinds of medium and lnternets and so forth have cane into being. Forth, the knowledge products also pc~sess some features of public ones. Fifth, the value of knowledge is a condensation of axnnnn human labor inwulved in pro- ducing knowledge commodity. Sixth, because the value of knowledge axnmodity has the special features which exist in value transfer during producing stage, fnin the perspective of value, human knowledge base is just a base of knowledge value which is compe~sed of the values of knowledge ccxnrmdities. So the concept of the base of knowledge value is the baais for analyzing the value of knowledge - based cannxxlities.