Determining, developing and managing sustainable competitive advantages (SCAs), is one of the main approaches in order to competing in your industry. This workshop suggests intellectual capital elements could be an effective SCA, because of their unique/inimitable structure.
This workshop will assist attendees in determining potential SCAs for their own businesses in terms of IC concepts. Attendees are expected to find out at least a sample for each IC concept. Following this exercise, there will be comparison study considering their real competitors in terms of their own IC samples. At the end of the workshop, every attendee would attain “a potential IC elements list” for their own businesses in order to utilize as sustainable competitive advantage in the future.

Rapid Foresight is a prognostic and managerial technology. It allows acquisition of experts and non-experts knowledge and perceptions about possible future and integration of knowledge from different groups inside an organization or between different organisations and institutes. It is a managerial technology because it addresses the management of the future, rather just the “studies of the future”.
Traditional "big" Foresight involves thousands of experts, and its development takes several years. During the workshop the audience will learn Rapid Foresight technology, allowing generation of predictions in a shorter period of time and without big budgets. Foresight effectively helps to identify the main tends, technologies, threats and opportunities for the chosen area of activity and to design a roadmap of collaborative project including critical path development to collectively achieve a desired future.

In the past decades, many so called “Emerging Countries” have successfully used Innovation, Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) to develop themselves and provide for the necessary facilities to their population, among others accessible and affordable medicines, improved seeds, and other technological innovations. Those countries, while applying Intellectual Property (IP) international regulations, have taken into account the local needs and realities to draw their own national IP policies and strategies.
While recognizing the importance of North – South Cooperation in the field of Innovation, Technology Transfer and IP, we should see South – South cooperation as another very important stream of international cooperation, as the sharing among Emerging countries and developing countries of common realities and challenges in the field of IP makes South-South cooperation in this area particularly relevant and a fertile ground for sharing experiences.
Those countries have indeed a lot to learn from each other’s experiences, and there is a need for reflexion on such experiences.
This workshop is therefore an opportunity to exchanges on best practices, sharing experiences, but also to identify possible partnerships and concrete projects.

? Contents

• Situation in the members states of the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI) • Establishment of Science and Technology Parks, their role in innovation and development, and IPRs aspects
• South – South Cooperation in the implementation of the flexibilities of international IP system when drawing Innovation and IP Policies and Strategies for development
• Formulation and Implementation of IP Strategies and the WIPO Development Agenda: National Experiences
• South – South Technology Transfer
• South – South Cooperation for Development (as a kind of conclusion of the workshop).

Businesses, particularly small and medium enterprises, play a significant part in development of the economy. Most of the developing countries rely on large firms or multinationals for creation of jobs and upliftment of the wealth. However, historical trends have shown that this is not the case. Small businesses create employment opportunities and cheaper products on low overheads; however, these are also threatened by larger enterprises for their survival. Paving way for successful small businesses comes only with development of entrepreneurial behaviour.
This presentation focuses on importance of entrepreneurial behaviour for the growth of small businesses. It is easier to set up a small enterprise but it takes passion, commitment and low degree of uncertainty avoidance –essentially the core elements of entrepreneurial behaviour- to take these businesses to the next level. Small enterprises are at a greater risk due to lack of managerial skills, lack of finances, lack of competitor and market information and lack of corporate outlook. However, if attention is paid to development of entrepreneurial behaviour at large, all these problems can be resolved.
Entrepreneurship is the ability to seek out opportunities and turn them to profitable businesses. In the developing world, not only do the enterprises face internal problems but are also disturbed by political interference, terrorism, lack of infrastructure and technology. And more importantly, the failure of many new enterprises can be attributed to lack of entrepreneurial knowledge. This presentation will not only discuss the factors that play a key role in failure of many new entrepreneurial ventures but will also focus on how these businesses could be saved by applying entrepreneurial knowledge, theory and practice.

Different organizations consider knowledge, also called intellectual capital(IC), to be as important as tangible capital. Knowledge enables organizations to grow and survive and become more competitive. For this reason, many organizations are currently considering innovative techniques and methods to manage and acquire their knowledge systematically. One of the modern techniques in the artificial intelligence is the software agent, in this paper we introduce a methodology to use software agent in the knowledge acquisition from domain experts. The resulted knowledge can be deeded to the shell system to become intelligent advisory system.

In the formation of the human capital and for better management Intellectual capital, central role has pedagogic and academic labor force, for obtaining and sustain qualification persons in the organization always complicated task for managers, by other hand academic personal have works which is not concentrated with one task. It is connected with student, subject, class and academic achievements. Remuneration system should have motivation and same time snoozing affect for better usage resources in the organizations for achieving shareholders aims: “Increase shareholders value”.

In the work presented new model of the Remuneration system for high educations academic workers. Model based on activity-based costing/management (ABC/M) with global decision-making methodology (GDM). In the work presented the circumstances that led the universities to adopt the model. There is shown in the work practical examples with “what if” analyses, there is also presented SWOT analyses of the Method.

For calculating Remuneration model uses two approaches: Activity based costing/management coefficients and Academic achievement coefficients approach, Based on the University priority analysis money weight of the coefficients can be changed, but coefficient calculation methodology giving possibility fully estimate professors/teachers works and academic achievements. there is created
• 7 cost driver mix in the direction of Activity based costing/management coefficient: Time of pedagogical service, Time of research practices, Number of the research publications, Number of the participation in the conferences, Number of the participation in the projects, Number of the training participation, number of the written books or monographs and
• 3 cost driver mix Academic achievement coefficient approach: Subject base, class based, student number based.

Knowledge management is the fundamental key enabler for any organization, irrespective of profit making or not. However, in a developmental nonprofit organization where there is a need as well as the application of KM has a pivotal role for sustainable development intervention. This is because the developmental and poverty reduction intervention have to build, customize, retain, utilize, transfer and exchange their knowledge to partners and stakeholders.
In these developmental organizations, not only organizations do have distinct features and characteristics, but also there are no universal sustainable development management constructs that are applicable to all organization. Similarly, it is unlikely that a universal KM model can be applied to all sustainable development interventions. Nevertheless, it is possible to view the KM in different sustainable development interventions in terms of the application among the different resources and enablers of the sustainable development management and thus develop a useful generic KM organizational application for a better understanding and application to suite the very demand.
To ensure that the right knowledge is available to the right person at the right time – and also that this person is in the right place. KM should support the core task of every development organization. In addition, its operationalisation should takes place on a segment-, organizational unit-, regional office and job-specific basis.
Through KM policy and strategies sustainable development intervention can insure sustaining knowledge across task and development by identifying and capturing the information that exists across the organization, help staff to find, organize, and share the knowledge they already have. Moreover, increase the exchange of knowledge, collaboration and facilitate knowledge sharing by developing techniques and tools to enable the sharing of knowledge and experience within and outside. Managers must therefore develop, maintain, and renew the knowledge and competence that service employees require to perform the core service and maintain the fundamental promises of the provider’s value proposition.
My presentation will give insight on how KM principles apply in organizational to support sustainable development interventions. Furthermore, how innovative KM used to harness the value of knowledge thereby increase the quality and impacts of the services and organization provide and make an important contribution to sustainable development management.

Purpose
This workshop could be conducted as a pre-conference workshop or as part of the Conference sessions. It would benefit Post Graduate students and new or novice researchers. It would also serve as a refresher course to experienced researchers.

For Whom
The workshop is generally for the 5th International Conference on Intellectual Capital Management participants that are interested in and committed to writing and publishing scholarly articles in eminent journals on intellectual capital management and other social and management science subjects. It would motivate emerging scholars to appreciate the challenges of making contribution to knowledge for career development.

Approach
The workshop is expected to be very interactive and participatory.

Issues/Ideas
Issues to be addressed by the workshop are:
1. Why publishing in Journals
2. Types of Papers in Social and Management Science disciplines
3. Where to start from
4. Contents (outline) of a good article
5. Main sections of the article
6. The ethics of publishing
7. General Guidelines
8. Some Don'ts in publishing
9. Need for Mentoring

Emphasis
Two key issues are to be emphasized by the workshop:
1. The need for senior colleagues to encourage junior colleagues and students to penetrate eminent journals (journals that are indexed and abstracted in established citation databases) by carrying them along, as co-authors to publish in those journals.
2. The need for the concept of MENTORING to be emphasized so that the mentor/mentee relationship is understood as a necessary measure for effective guidance, training, and direction of the mentees to the right path on their academic career development.

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