intellectual capital

In the Industrial Age, the way to become rich was to own physical capital such as railways, steelworks, factories, property and boats. The run of Internet and software millionaires and billionaires show the game has shifted to Intellectual Captial. Intellectual Captial includes patented ideas, brand trademarks, software and designs. It is not so much what you know, more a case of creating technology to manage and utilize what you and others know.