The Knowledge Management Education Hub

Conferences

Franco-German Round Table on Intangibles** ¹⁾
(Co-organizer: Chaire Européenne de Management de l’Immatériel, Université Paris-Sud; Geographisches Institut, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; New Club of Paris e.V.)

The Franco-German Round Table on Intangibles is a research and policy initiative by two major universities in the two countries (as well in Europe) – The University Paris-Sud and Heidelberg University- who decided to join their recent and on-going research efforts, in order to: (1) Come up with conceptual instruments; (2) Provide a stimulating platform for research and action for progress among different stakeholders in France and Germany; (3) Contribute, more generally, to the large dialogue in Europe and more globally, on the role of intangibles in value creation.

• 3rd Franco-German Roundtable on Intangibles, November 22, 2013, Paris, France
  (Host: French Ministry of Economy and Finance)
  Sessions:
  Intangible investment and economic growth: a comparative analysis of France and Germany; Innovation systems: Organisation and adaptation to the knowledge economy requirements; Reporting and valuing intangibles: Review of recent initiatives; Open innovation and knowledge assets; Digital platforms and business models; Intangibles of territories; Final Panel: What agenda for the future, What agenda for Europe?

• 2nd Franco-German Roundtable on Intangibles, September 17, 2012, Heidelberg, Germany
  Conference Theme: Dilemmas of the Knowledge Economy
  (Host: Economic and Social Geography Group, Institute of Geography, University of Heidelberg)
  Intangibles: a clarifying statement and agenda

  Sessions:
  The measurement dilemma; The engineering dilemma; The incentive dilemma; The circulation dilemma; Plenary Discussion

• 1st Franco-German Roundtable on Intangibles, September 26, 2011, Paris, France
  Conference Theme: Creation, valuation and dissemination 2012- 2014
  (Host: Ministère de l’économie, des finances et de l’industrie)
  Sessions:
  Intangible investment and economic growth a comparative analysis of France and Germany; Information systems and organisational capital as complementary assets; Reporting and valuing intangibles: The financial analyst perspective; Reporting and valuing intangibles (with a specific focus on SMEs); IPRs, public funding and open innovation practices; Looking at the future : Value creation in Knowledge markets, networks and communities

Other Round Tables

• Sep 2011: Transformation into Innovative and Knowledge Society: Perspectives of the EU’s Danube Strategy
  (1st Climate Change, Economic Development, Environment and People Conference (CCEDEP), 14-15 Sep, Novi Sad, Serbia)
• Jun 2010: Bridging the Knowledge Divide: Building the Malaysian Link (with Perdana Leadership Foundation)
• Jun 2009: The Transformation of Austria towards the Knowledge Society (with the Parliament of Austria)
• Apr 2007: The Intellectual Capital of Morocco: A Strategy for the 21st Century (with ONA Foundation)
• Nov 2006: Five Steps for Finland’s Future (with the Prime Minister of Finland)

Sponsored Conferences

• World Conference on Intellectual Capital for Communities (since 2007)
• WCI Annual International Conference
• …

Workshops & Seminars

• Jul 2022: Potsdam: From Science City to City of Knowledge Transfer? A discussion on knowledge/science city development (Special NCP Event)
• May 2013: Regional Innovation Workshop
• Apr 2013: High Performance Team & Leadership Seminar
• Feb 2012: Humboldt Cosmos Multiversity Seminar – Working Sessions: United Nations’ vision of a “New Society Based on New Economic Models”; Decision making in an uncertain global context; A multi- and transdiscipilinary approach for resilient development; Conference: Maintaining creation of wealth in the knowledge economy: Escaping from the crisis of Spain and the Canary Islands in specific as peripheral regions of Europe

Meetings

Annual Meetings

• Sep 2025: NCP Annual Meeting + General Assembly, 3-6 September 2025, Lahti, Finland
  (Host: Knowledge Management Research and Teaching Team, LUT Business School, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technologya; In conjunction with the ECKM – 26th European Conference of Knowledge Management)
  NCP activities:
  presentations, working groups, strategy workshops, and the General Assembly

  ECKM mini-track:
  Intellectual Capital as a Dynamic, Multilevel, and Complex Ecosystem (related book: Futurizing Intellectual Capital: Insights on Navigating Knowledge-Based Value Creation)

• Apr 2025: 20th anniversary celebration @ World Expo 2025, 14-18 April, 2025, Kyoto & Osaka, Japan
  (Partners: Japanese Innovation Network; World Intellectual Capital Initiative; Quintbridge, NTT West)
  TBD

  Meetings:
  Ceremony of the 20th anniversary of NCP, 14 Apr
  NTT West/Future Center Alliance Japan/NCP Internal Strategy Meeting, 15 Apr
  Meeting @ Kansai University, Institute for Innovative Global Education, 18 Apr

  EXPO days, 16-17 Apr
  … @ Pavilions

  Site visits: (incl. NCP Introduction & Q&A)
  Doshisha University in Kyoto, Value Research Center, 14 Apr
  Osaka Chamber of Commerce, Osaka Entrepreneur Museum, 15 Apr
  Osaka University, Nakanoshima Center, 15 Apr
  NTT Quint Bridge, 15 Apr

• Nov 2024: NCP General Assembly
  (Host: University of Catania; In conjunction with the WCI Annual International Conference)
  TBD

• Sep 2023: NCP Summer Meeting, 7-8 September, 2023, Lisbon, Portugal
  (Host: ISCTE – Instituto Universitario de Lisboa; In conjunction with the ECKM – 24th European Conference of Knowledge Management)
  ECKM Keynotes:
  Intellectual Capital as a Missed Value
  Society 5.0, Knowledge and Conceptual Capability

  ECKM Round tables:
  Futurizing Intellectual Capital for better society

  NCP Board Meeting + Invited members
  NCP General Assembly

  Portuguese Intellectual Capital 5.0 (NCP members only)

• Oct 2022: NCP Fall Meeting “Creating Sustainable Wealth in a Global Knowledge Economy”, 20-21 October, 2022, Barcelona, Spain
  (Host: Commission for the Economy of Knowledge and Innovation, Col·legi d’Economistes de Catalunya)

  Note: Draft agenda is the same as in 2020.

  Round Tables:
  Creating Sustainable Wealth in a Global Economy
  Knowledge Based Development Institutions

  Keynotes:
  Intangibles and Intellectual Capital as the Main Sources of Wealth in the 4th Industrial Revolution Context

  Presentation Sessions:
  Digital Disruption in the Next Decade
  Ethics and Negotiation as Basis for Successful Global Entrepreneurship

  NCP internal meeting

• Jun 2022: NCP Summer Meeting, 23-25 June, 2022, Potsdam, Germany
  (Host: Fachhochschule Potsdam; in conjunction with the International Conference on Knowledge Management)
  New Club of Paris – Knowledge Café @ICKM
  Potsdam: From Science City to City of Knowledge Transfer? A discussion on knowledge/science city development (round table)

  NCP internal meeting (Workshops: NCP Future, Ongoing NCP Projects)
  NCP General Assembly

• Apr 2020: NCP Winter Meeting “Creating Sustaiable Wealth in a Global Knowledge Economy”, April 23-24, 2020, Barcelona, Spain
  (Host: Commission for the Economy of Knowledge and Innovation, Col·legi d’Economistes de Catalunya)
  Round Tables:
  Creating Sustainable Wealth in a Global Economy
  Knowledge Based Development Institutions

  Keynotes:
  Intangibles and Intellectual Capital as the Main Sources of Wealth in the 4th Industrial Revolution Context

  Presentation Sessions:
  Digital Disruption in the Next Decade
  Ethics and Negotiation as Basis for Successful Global Entrepreneurship

  NCP Internal meeting

• Apr 2019: NCP Winter Meeting “Economic growth in the Knowledge Economy & Knowledge Economy in the Territory”, April 11-12, 2019, Barcelona, Spain
  (Host: Commission for the Economy of Knowledge and Innovation, Col·legi d’Economistes de Catalunya)
  Keynotes:
  Creating wealth in the context of the knowledge economy

  Round Tables:
  Institutional innovations and economic growth
  Innovation, entrepreneurship and economic growth
  Value creation in the context of the fourth industrial revolution
  The scientific and technological situation and future of Catalonia

• Apr 2018: NCP Winter Meeting, 19–21 April 2018, Catania, Italy
  (Host: Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania)
  Round Tables:
  Building the Future together

  NCP internal meeting

• 2016, 2017 ?
• Mar 2015: NCP Winter Meeting “Building the Future Together: Wise/Smart City projects and approaches”, 5-6 March, 2015, Montpellier, France
  (Host: Metropole de Montpellier)
  Sessions:
  From Industrial Era to Digital Era and beyond
  From Knowledge City, to Smart, Creative, Green, Hybrid and Wise City
  Building the Future Together: (1) Strategic challenges, (2) Strategic actions

  NCP internal meeting (Does Technology need Human?; What IC for the Future?)

• 2014 ?
• Feb 2013: NCP Winter Meeting “Turning ideas into structures”, 3-6 February 2013, Luxembourg
  (Host: Luxembourg Association for Intellectual Capital)
  Future of Luxembourg Conference (FutLux) NCP Panel

  NCP internal meeting (Projects; Updating Intellectual Capital Methodologies; Intellectual Capital for Ultra-peripheral areas; Intellectual Capital for Africa; NCP Renewal)

• Feb 2012 (#3): NCP Midwinter Working Meeting, 6-11 February 2012 2012, Tenerife, Spain
  (Host: Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands, University of La Laguna)
  Working Sessions:
  A multi- and transdiscipilinary approach for resilient development (demonstrated with and for the Island of Tenerife (in Spanish))
  Decision making in an uncertain global context (in German)
  United Nations’ vision of a “New Society Based on New Economic Models”

  Conference:
  Maintaining creation of wealth in the knowledge economy: Escaping from the crisis of Spain and the Canary Islands in specific as peripheral regions of Europe (working title)

  NCP internal meeting

• 2011 (#2): NCP Midwinter session in Sophia Antipolis
• 2010 (#1): NCP Midwinter Meeting, 5-8 February 2010, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
  (Host: Chair of International Management, University of Liechtenstein)

General Assembly

• In conjunction with the World Conference on Intellectual Capital for Communities:
  Jul 2019, Jun 2018, 2017?, Jul 2016 (10th Anniversary), …, May 2012,…, May 2010,…, Jun 2006
• In conjunction with other events:
  Jun 2022 @ ICKM