Entrepreneurial and renewal capital of finnish and italian firms: insights from an empirical study

The aim of the work is to analyse the relationship between entrepreneurial capital (EC), renewal capital (RC) and trust capital (TC), considered as stand-alone components of intellectual capital (IC), and firms’ performances. To this end an empirical research was carried out based on a sample of Italian companies. Survey’s results show that EC, RC and TC have a positive influence on Italian medium and large companies’ performance. Findings contribute to understand how EC, RC and TC affect organisations’ value creation and enable organisations to improve their performances by a better management of knowledge-based resources.