Measurement of National Knowledge Assets

Knowledge assets represent the capabilities and capacity of the country that are essential for economic growth, competitive advantage, human development and quality of life.The purpose of the present study is to measure the national assets in selected Iranian organizations.
Research

As the results are intended to be applicable in the studied organizations this study is applied in nature. In terms of the design and procedure, the study is descriptive using a survey to collect data and qualitative in terms of the analysis procedure. The population consists of four purposefully selected organizations operating under the official permission by Islamic Republic of Iran. Each of the organizations represents the public and private sectors. The selection criteria are access to information and the data is collected after contacting and sending the list of the measures to the relevant people of the organizations and the completed forms are received and analyzed according to the model of measuring national knowledge assets.
Research

Given the financial nature of the information, the data are collected mainly from financial, human resource, information technology and informant departments of those organizations.

The findings indicate that the level of attention to the components and dimensions of knowledge assets in these organizations is different and the value for some components of knowledge assets is zero because of the lack of processes to measure them, or because they are not measured separately.