However, the growth of these institutions can be measured in months, instead of years. Nothing is impeding that growth. Impact of intellectual capital and knowledge as a commodity on curriculum and university management. A large number of texts in the 90s have been written on these concepts, many for general and professional as well as academic audiences. However, few companies have truly been able to develop the systems and environment necessary to utilize these qualities.
Substantiative models have yet to be developed for organizations and corporations to employ.
Higher education institutions are in a position to be the models for other organizations to look to. No other institution or corporation could hope to compete with the diversity and strength of intellectual capital that is contained in our research and teaching universities. However, this capital has few advantages because there is not a sustained effort to focus it on an institutional level. Few mechanisms or systems exist to transfer and employ the intellectual capital of a university onto itself, except through the traditional channels of refereed journal publishing. Through these channels, many layers are created which further separate the research findings from those who would apply them, whether they be internal or external.