INTELLECTUAL ECONOMICS 2007, Number 1(1)
PREFACE FROM THE EDITING BOARDNew scientific journal as we expect would rally around the Lithuanian and cooperating foreign scientists interested about methodological problems of knowledge economy components, such as intellectual resources and intellectual capital. In particular, those are intellectual aspects of economic development and financial management, criteria and evaluations of IT efficiency in economic systems and electronic business, comparative analysis of strategic development criteria in transitional economies and so on.
Some of them, first of all, the regulation of new intellectual property cases and their valuation (in particular, practice of financial or marketing management), requests also the deepening of their judicial fundamentals for the specification and evaluation in the economic context.
The globalization opens new possibilities and new metaeconomic requests for determining contemporary economic analysis. The growing and even biggest part of the nations’ wealth within the high developed economies is created by the intellectual resources. These requests to apply the radically new methodological approaches for measurement of utilities and services created by intellectual capital which now is substantially under evaluated by official statistics. The more exact measurements of the economic efficiency of intellectual capital in various fields would help to ameliorate the concentration of national economic potential within most perspective and effective fields and their competitiveness.
Such questions we expect have to be discussed first of all within publications of new journal. Main accent in the first issue is devoted to the methodological, regional and intellectual aspects of transitional economies and their intellectual capital. Next issue is devoted to the methodological aspects of the integration of Lithuanian logistics into EU economic area.
Antanas Buračas