Intellectual Capital -The Role of and Responsibilities of Knowledge Holders

The communication deals with professional challenges of knowledge management, the specifity of information brokers' work, the way they encourage the development of companies' intelectual capital thus influencing the processes of knowledge management. The authoress would also like to point out an important issue : the necessity of promoting this new profession, and find an answer to the question whether treating the terms 'information broker' and 'knowledge dispatcher' equally is appropriate, as the first term refers to the field of information wheraes the latter- to the field of knowledge.