Predicting the intellectual capital based on spiritual intelligence, social capital and knowledge management in university students

Intellectual capital is an intangible asset that can be considered as a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Therefore, the aim of present research was predicting the intellectual capital based on spiritual intelligence, social capital and knowledge management in university students. Design research was a descriptive from type of correlation. The population was university students of Islamic Azad University of Tehran city in 2017-18 academic years that from them 600 people selected by multistep cluster sampling method. Research tools were the questionnaire of intellectual capital (Bontis, 2001), spiritual intelligence (AbdollahZadeh & et al, 2009), social capital (Pajak, 2006) and knowledge management (Probst, 2000). Data were analyzed with using SPSS-23 software and by Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression with enter model. The results showed that spiritual intelligence, social capital and knowledge management had a positive and significant relationship with intellectual capital in university students. The prediction variables means spiritual intelligence, social capital and knowledge management significantly could explain 51/1 percent of variance of intellectual capital in university students (P<0/01). As a result, to increase the intellectual capital in university students can promote the rate of their spiritual intelligence, social capital and knowledge management via workshop.