Evaluating and measuring intellectual capital in universities and higher education institutes: case study of educational campuses in Yazd University

From the strategic point of view, intellectual capital is a major driver for growth and development of organizations. This intangible asset is used to create knowledge and enhance performance of higher education institutes. The success of these institutes relies on their intellectual capital status. Given the focus on public universities, managing intellectual capital and knowledge has been a target of increasing attention by experts and researchers. Chancellors and administrators of public universities should support the role of intellectual capital in enabling educational innovation and research excellence. Hence, in this study we have evaluated and then measured the status of intellectual capital. Findings of the current study show significant differences in terms of intellectual capital between the investigated campuses. It was found that humanities campus had a low score in all aspects of intellectual capital except for human capital. Additionally, engineering campus had just one satisfactory score in relational capital and other aspects of intellectual capital had a less-than-average score. Besides, the result of ranking intellectual capital aspects indicates that teaching skills are of highest importance.