https://phaidrani.ni.ac.rs/o:2501 doi:10.5937/bhekofor2101117K http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode Krstić, Bojan Janjić, Ivana Jovanović- Vujatović, Milica Milanović, Sandra The significance of R&D activities for managing intellectual capital of enterprises Enterprises are developing, increasing their profits, value and competitiveness based on successful synergies of human, structural and relational intellectual capital. In addition, R&D (Research and Development) has been acknowledged as a crucial contributor to the competitive advantage in today’s competitive market. By performing R&D activities, companies create, develop and use intellectual resources (the knowledge of employees and managers, the knowledge contained in technology and processes), which are valorized on the market and converted into a certain value. R&D is the primary source of knowledge stored within individuals in the enterprise. The most generally used indicators of R&D outputs are patents and innovations, and very important components of structural intellectual capital. Both of these indicators are used to evaluate a company’s technological strength and capabilities. BH Economic forum, Vol. 14, Ekonomski fakultet u Zenici, Bosna i Hercegovina application/pdf 1077869 bytes eng 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article