Generation of intangible assets in the Federal Institute of Piauí: analysis of the production potential of human capital

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), typical knowledge institutions, are strategic in the generation of intangible assets (Intellectual Capital). These institutions have mechanisms to encourage research and scientific production and have Human Capital with high levels of academic qualifications. Therefore, knowing the potential of human capital in the process of generating intellectual capital is also important to guide the institution's actions in developing strategies to stimulate scientific production. The objective of this research is to identify the influence of academic qualification of human capital in the generation of intangible assets (Intellectual Capital). To this end, a search was carried out in the Lattes Platform of the CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) to identify the intellectual production, specifically full articles published in journals, of the permanent teachers of the IFPI Campus São Joãodo Piauí, in the period 2016-2020. It was found that Teachers form the teaching staff of the institution with doctors, masters and specialists. In addition, it was noticed that 41.2% of the Teachers are responsible for the identified production, and that 58.8% of the Teachers did not publish complete articles in journals, considering the period of the research. The results suggest that academic qualifications can influence the production of intellectual capital by teachers. This framework requires from the institution the capacity to implement institutional policies and elaborate strategies to enable the insertion of Teachers in strict sensu postgraduate courses and to stimulate scientific production.