The knowledge management strategic lever to develop and assess the intellectual capital of enterprises.

The economy has changed. In a few years, a new component is imposed as a lever for growth of economies: the intellectual capital. During the Thirty Glorious Years, economic success was essentially based on the wealth of raw materials, on the volume of capital equipment which has each company. This remains true, naturally. But less and less. In this new context the management of knowledge, is its creation, protection, its dissemination and its renewal, has become a strategic lever for the assessment and the development of the intellectual capital within companies. From this observation, the objective of this Article is to explain the concept of intellectual capital, including its important role in the organization. As well as to understand the link between the management of knowledge and the development of the intellectual capital.