Knowledge management as a way of adapting to an uncertain future

Abstract

At present, we are living in an unprecedented historical period of capital reformatting. The era when capital meant only land, equipment, labour, and money has already become history. Today, classical forms of capital are giving way to the new form of "intangible assets". In the period from 1996 to 2021 the value of intangible assets in the world has increased more than 10 times from $6 trillion in 1996 to $74 trillion in 2021. If in 1996 intangible assets accounted for 20.1% of world GDP, then in 2021 them accounted already 77.9%. Thus, all this gives grounds to assert that humanity already has the structure of the new economy of the 21st century, where the main form of capital is intangible assets (knowledge, brands, patents, licenses, technologies).