Modeling intangibles : transaction regimes versus community regimes / Ahmed Bounfour -- Regional intellectual capital in waiting : a strategic intellectual capital quest / Leif Edvinsson -- Estimating the level of investment in knowledge across the OECD countries / Mosahid Khan -- Knowledge economies : a global perspective / Jean-Eric Aubert -- Investing in intangibles : is a trillion dollars missing from the gross domestic product? / Leonard Nakamura -- Intangibles and intellectual capital in the European Investment Bank project appraisal / Jean-Jacques Mertens and Jacques Van der Meer -- Assessing performance of European innovations systems : an intellectual capital indexes perspective / Ahmed Bounfour -- National intellectual capital index : the benchmarking of Arab countries / Nick Bontis -- The intellectual capital of the state of Israel / Edna Pasher and Sigal Shachar -- Rethinking leadership in the knowledge society, learning from others : how to integrate intellectual and social capital and establish a new balance of value and values / Bernhard Von Mutius -- Japan and other East Asian economies under the knowledge-based economy / Seiichi Masuyama -- Value creation efficiency at national and regional levels : case study--Croatia and the European Union / Ante Pulic -- A European regional path to the knowledge economy : challenges and opportunities / Dimitri Corpakis -- Intellectual capital creation in regions : a knowledge system approach / Anssi Smedlund and Aino Pöyhönen -- Ragusa or how to measure ignorance : the ignorance meter / Klaus North and Stefanie Kares -- Can the state stimulate the creation of regional networks? Experiences from the Virtual Marketplace Bavaria initiative / Hans-Joachim Heusler and Hans Schedl -- The region's competence and human capital lessons from the collaboration between three European regions on competence mapping and intellectual capital management / Lars Karlsson and Paolo Martinez -- Learning-by-playing : bridging the knowing-doing gap in urban communities / Albert A. Angehrn -- Cities' intellectual capital benchmarking system (CICBS) : a methodology and a framework for measuring and managing intellectual capital of cities : a practical application in the city of Mataró / José María Viedma Marti -- Intellectual capital for communities : research and policy agenda / Ahmed Bounfour.d nationa.