New Club of Paris

The New Club of Paris (NCP) is modeled on the “ Club of Rome ” and aims to accompany the transition to the knowledge society and especially to the knowledge economy through conferences, seminars, studies and by supporting the work of (young) scientists .

The New Club of Paris was initiated on the occasion of a conference of the Paris office of the World Bank in summer 2005 by the "knowledge experts " Ahmed Bounfour ( Paris ), Leif Edvinsson ( Lund / Sweden ) and Günter Koch ( Vienna ) and founded in 2006. All three are considered to be the initiators or inventors of intellectual capital accounting procedures .

The club has its meeting room in Paris in the Swedish Club in the room where the desk is where Alfred Nobel once wrote his famous will, after which the Nobel Prize was made. The club's secretariat and office are in Vienna.

Work and effect

The New Club of Paris can be seen as a continuation of the activities of the “High Level Expert Group on Intellectual Capital Reporting”, a team of experts that was set up by the EU Commission in 2005 to develop the subject of “ Intellectual capital and knowledge balances ”. This working group presented the so-called RICARDIS report in the first half of 2006, as well as the “Manifesto” of The New Club of Paris, which describes its mission, direction and intentions.

The knowledge economy

It is assumed that the principles and laws of the knowledge economy will differ significantly from those of the current, “classic” economy. Examples of phenomena of the new paradigm are knowledge

• has unlimited growth potential,
• becomes more valuable when shared and disseminated,
• will not be available as a proprietary economic good, but as open source or knowledge commons ,
• In the form of "intangible assets" in the balance sheets, especially of knowledge and research-intensive (service) companies, which up to now have not shown their "intellectual assets" when raising funds (equity and debt) compared to traditional Companies were disadvantaged.

Web links

• Official website
• http://www.execupery.com/publikationen.htm
• The New Club of Paris - the fathers of intellectual capital statements (video, Prof. Leif Edvinsson and Prof. DI Günter Koch speak about the future of intellectual capital statements)

Individual references, comments

1. ↑ RICARDIS Report (PDF)