Corporate Innovative Capability between the Forces of Typical Dilemmas – Conceptual Challenges for Knowledge and Intellectual Capital Management

Innovative capability is the decisive success factor of sustainable competitiveness. In many respects it is based on the organization’s intellectual capital. A high significance is thereby given to managing the intellectual capital. This particularly applies with regard to the balancing of the inbuilt conflicts of objectives (dilemmas) in whose area of conflict innovative capability is to be structured. The article presents these dilemmas and shows possible approaches to structuring the intellectual capital management. A major challenge in view of the many conceivable methodical approaches is shown to be the integrated structure that is adapted to the respective organizational context. Within the scope of producing connectable solutions, reference is particularly made in each case to morphology of types of knowledge and types of innovation. In the consideration of future prospects an idea is proposed that pursues the university model of knowledge transfer beyond academic education and thereby could represent an additional approach to the continuous transfer of innovation stimuli of academics in practice. A company’s innovative capability could on the whole benefit from such improved general conditions.