New Club of Paris General Assembly 2008

As a member of the New Club of Paris (NCP) I joined the 2008 general assembly on May 21st in Paris. The general assembly took place one day before the World Conference on Intellectual Capital for Communities (IC4). Since the New Club of Paris is a membership-based community open to academics, policy-makers and high-level experts a lot of new knowledge and experiences were shared. Some of them are confidential but some of them are publically available anyways:

1. A Intellectual capital research agenda will be published on the club's website.
2. Idea of the NCP as a "Faculty for Knowledge Economy & Economics".
3. NCP Chapter Germany: The regional knowledge management initiative in the Metropolitan Area of Nuremberg was mentioned by the NCP Chapter Germany. The GfWM Knowledge Management Model which is a process-oriented, ISO 9001 based and freely available model for organizational knowledge management was also mentioned . A probem in germany is that there are many different communities that are not very well connected/syncronized.
4. Charles Savage presented the "method" of the "on-handed-clap". You clap with just one hand so signalize that you are supporting an idea but it makes no noise :)
5. NCP Chapter Austria: Fest der 1000.
6. NCP Chapter Japan: World Intellectual Capital/Assets Initiative (WICI), Intellectual Assets based Management (IAbM), Knowledge Economy Association, 2nd German-Japanese IC summit, Intellectual-Asset-Based Management Manual for SMEs, Society for Knowledge Economics (Australia), annual IA Week, Tokio University
7. NCP Chapter Finland: Five Steps to Finland's future, National Innovation Strategy, Cooperation of Helsinki School of Economics, Technology and Arts to form an innovation center, Future Committee of the Parliament.
8. NCP Chapter France: State Intellectual Assets (IA)
9. NCP Chapter Scandinavia: Societal Entrepreneurship
10. NCP Chapter Israel: Effectiveness of ICT RTD Impacts on the EU Innovation System
11. NCP Chapter Mexico, Middle Americas: MAKCi-award, World Capital Institute
12. On the next general assembly of the Knowledge Management Society (GfWM e.V.) in autumn 2008 I will suggest to form an alliance/cooperation of NCP and GfWM.