The role of intellectual capital in the intrapreneurshipa dynamic capability approach

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As it can be used as a strategy for inducing innovation, the entrepreneurship within anexisting organization is highly worthwhile in the current dynamic environment.However, entrepreneurship research traditionally lacked a foundational theory.Despite efforts to afford a theory of entrepreneurship, only a broad consensus amongstto define entrepreneurship as the process of identification and exploitation ofopportunities has been achieved. When this process takes place within an organizationis called intrapreneurship and it involves to redirect or recombine many resourcesaround an opportunity, which can only be identified and exploited through someknowledge. In this sense, Intellectual Capital represents the set of intangible resourcesrelated to different categories of knowledge on the organization, as Human Capital orSocial Capital. However, to focus just on the process from an operational approach, isto tell only half the story. An entrepreneurial behaviour inside establishedorganizations is needed at the strategic level, broadly named corporateentrepreneurship. The entrepreneurial behaviour, often called entrepreneurialorientation, is related with the firm’s capabilities to innovate, to take risks and tocompete proactive. In this context, we integrate the Dynamic Capabilities perspectivewith the entrepreneurship, and we highlight the major role that plays once again theIntellectual Capital, building them. On the basis of an integrated operational andstrategic model, we present a comprehensive manner to understand theentrepreneurship within an existing organization, considering the Intellectual Capitaland from a Dynamic capability approach