The enterprises’ intellectual potential as a key driver of post-war development

Abstract

The paper substantiates the role of enterprises’ intellectual potential as a key foundation for the formation of their strategic potential and for ensuring sustainable development under post-crisis and post-war transformations. It identifies the impact of intellectual resources on the innovative, adaptive, and strategic capabilities of enterprises, taking into account contemporary global trends in the knowledge economy.
It is generalized that the intellectual potential of an enterprise represents an integral characteristic of its ability to generate, accumulate, and effectively use knowledge, competencies, and information resources in the course of economic activity. The level of intellectual potential determines the quality of strategic decision-making, adaptability to changes in the external environment, and the enterprise’s ability to form sustainable competitive advantages. Under current conditions of the knowledge economy, intellectual potential serves as a key basis for long-term development and economic resilience of enterprises.
The intellectual potential of an enterprise ensures the quality of strategic analysis and managerial decision-making; it constitutes the cognitive foundation of strategic potential, shaping its content and quality, while strategic potential provides the mechanisms for its implementation and development. Their interaction determines the enterprise’s capacity for long-term growth, innovative activity, and resilience in the context of structural transformations.
The study reveals the key features and debatable aspects of national development strategies unfolding under the globalization of the world economy in the context of the emergence of the knowledge economy. The relationship between intellectual and strategic potential is identified as a determinant of long-term competitiveness and sustainability of enterprises. Intellectual resources form the qualitative basis of strategic decisions and ensure the enterprise’s capacity for innovation-driven growth under conditions of uncertainty and structural economic change. Thus, intellectual potential is considered a universal, multidimensional factor of strategic enterprise development.
Special emphasis is placed on the analysis of contemporary trends, including digitalization, automation, the development of artificial intelligence, and the platform-based transformation of business models. The essence of platformization is explained as a transition to an ecosystem-based logic of value creation, and the decisive role of intellectual potential in the design, governance, and scaling of platform solutions in post-crisis and post-war environments is substantiated.
The paper also generalizes the historical experience of post-war reconstruction and substantiates the leading role of intellectual potential at both micro- and macroeconomic levels. It demonstrates that the development of education systems, scientific and technological schools, engineering and managerial competencies, organizational learning, and corporate culture creates the prerequisites for strategic flexibility of enterprises. The importance of institutions capable of transforming knowledge into technological and managerial solutions is analyzed. It is proven that post-war modernization of enterprises should be based on personnel training systems, R&D, knowledge management, and network cooperation with partners and stakeholders.
Summarizing the findings, the study concludes that the intellectual potential of enterprises constitutes the key foundation for strategic development, innovation-driven growth, and resilience of national economies in contemporary conditions. It is demonstrated that priority investment in knowledge, competencies, and managerial practices creates the prerequisites for the formation of a new competitive development model within the knowledge economy.