Value Creation Through Intellectual Capital in Developed European Markets

This paper investigates the production function of firms based on the use of intellectual capital. We come up with this problem since believe that the new economy conditions require an adjustment and a development of classical firm theory. The research question addressed in this study is mainly related to the empirical validation of the function based on companies' intangibles in the Cobb-Douglas framework. This model enables us to advocate the idea of the complementarity of intellectual resources as well as simplifies the analysis of intellectual capital features. To accomplish the purpose of our research we design a log-linear model and estimate it on a sample of more than 400 European and American companies. Application of Cobb-Douglas framework allowed designing a production function based on intellectual capital. The complementarity of intellectual capital components is justified on the empirical results obtained in this research. The increasing return to scale for intellectual capital was established for the sample examined in this study