CONTRIBUTION OF INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL IN KNOWLEDGE SHARING IN A NETWORK OF PRIVATE HIGHER EDUCATION

The challenges faced by Higher Education Institutions (HE1) in the Knowledge Economy are several, especially with regard to the sharing of knowledge between people. HEls act mainly on the creation and dissemination of knowledge, where at one hand the teachers do the work of create and disseminate it and other students absorb it, and create new ones. Nevertheless, the challenge of managing knowledge is the same faced internally by other organizations. Thus, we established as objective to analyze the sharing of knowledge for decision making in a private institution of higher education from the dimensions of Intellectual Capital. The dimensions of Intellectual Capital covers the Human Capital, Structural Capital and Relational Capital. The methodological procedure involved a literature review, the research development and the empirical evidence. In reviewing the literature were treated aspects related to knowledge management, intellectual capital and HEI. In the research development, a questionnaire was used for further empirical testing, which involved the participation of 13 coordinators of a campus located in one of the capitals of Brazilian south region. The results showed that intellectual capital contributes to the sharing knowledge for decision making in the institution, especially with regard to capital structure. Engineers highlighted that they use a Knowledge Management System (KMS) and an Academic Information System. Thus it can be said that the intellectual capital and the tools business management can contribute to knowledge management and knowledge sharing.