Intellectual Assets and Knowledge Engineering Method: A Contribution

The Higher Education Institutions, HEI are the natural space where the ethos of knowledge can be developed and the Intellectual Capital, IK can be accumulated. Its no secret the inadequacy of the Management Information Systems, MIS to incorporate knowledge. In fact is shared by many authors that well over half the market value is explained by the IK in companies of the Third Millennium. Traditional systems do not account for the IK and only estimate the book values vs. market values when selling focused on negotiation processes. On the other hand, there are already quite a few financial models of the knowledge economy that considers the IK. For the universities is a critical issue in the way of the Competitiveness of Higher Education. Our initiative EIDOS constituted unconventional ideas that have not had an audience in the context of Colombia. Now beginning to break through what an open space is required with basic units in the enterprise architecture of the HEI focused on innovation; This was stated by the Government Plan 2010-2014, in this country as an national strategy. These new architectures must be defined and supported in order to facilitate the stream of information and knowledge with new sources of generation, especially those where the IK did not exist. It begins to think that IK is the basis of sustainability and financial governance. Knowledge Engineering (KE) maturity level is inderway. As background it should be mentioned that this research originated to facilitate the use of development methodologies, information systems and evolve them to the incorporation of layers of knowledge for an Intelligent Management Information IMIS, to the various organizational and technological changes that occur in building new systems to meet customer requirements in improvement of processes, new demands of companies in the Knowledge Society and basically make the intelligent performance of the firm. Our research effort represents ongoing work with several University projects and unpublished graduate works and also consulting works for institutions in Colombia. In the FESSANJOSE the model has evolved to our proposal of social innovation Leontief Model that incorporate the knowledge sector. The KE methodology is shortly presented in this paper has been an attempt for reducing the complexity involved: is part of that effort and has not obeyed to a large-scale project with good funding. They have been serene developments that we want to share with the academic community. We describe an attempt to formalize a KE methodology in 8 steps which are presented in detail, the mix of ideas coming from both Engineering and Management we tried to integrate in this construct. The full method can be read in the 2nd chapter titled "Analytical Models for Tertiary Education by Propaedeutic Cycles Applying Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management".