Intellectual Capital and Innovation

A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

Innovation is considered a cornerstone of firms’ performance and survival. Despite previous literature indicating a connection between Intellectual Capital and Innovation, this relationship has been analysed using multiple approaches and different methodologies and there is no dominant view, which raises the question where the study of the relationship between intellectual capital and innovation currently stands. Deploying on a systematic literature review with a final sample of 178 full text papers on Intellectual Capital and Innovation, this study synthesizes the scholarly contributions that have been published on ISI Web of Knowledge – Current contents between 1998 and January 2021 on the Intellectual Capital-Innovation nexus, identifies the main areas of research and opens doors of opportunity for future research in the area.