Sustainable competitive advantage is a widely explored topic at the organizational level. Although, regions care about competitiveness as much as organizations, because it leads to improved welfare and economic performance. However, sustainable regional competitiveness is still an ambiguous concept. On the one hand, it considers long lasting economic growth and on the other hand, it focuses on the sustainability and well-being of upcoming generations. This paper considers both aspects. Intellectual capital, considered to be the foundation for competitive growth, is selected as a basis for the analysis. It is evaluated as a factor involved in regional competitiveness. Sustainable regional competitiveness in this paper is defined based on the World Economic Forum framework, the Global Sustainable Competitiveness Index, and the Global Green Economy Index. The aim of the paper is to identify the interlinks between intellectual capital and sustainable regional competitiveness. The paper is based on a literature review and index analysis. The findings show that intellectual capital is involved in almost all factors influencing regional competitiveness and it is even more important for sustainable regional competitiveness. It can be concluded that the interlinks between intellectual capital and sustainable regional competitiveness are strong and inseparable.

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It has been widely recognized that urban competitiveness relies on the reasonable management of the intellectual resource. This is not possible without having the proper resource inventory framework in place. The main purpose of this research is to explore the core and structure of city's intellectual capital by constructing and thoroughly investigating the intellectual capital framework, which could serve as a starting point for the city's performance measurement. In order to achieve this purpose the following tasks have been completed: (1) the importance of the intellectual resource in the context of urban competitiveness has been analyzed; (2) the city's intellectual capital concept variety by different authors has been explored; (3) the competitive cityspecific characteristics have been investigated; (4) a detailed city's intellectual capital framework that would facilitate the inventory of this resource has been created; (5) city's intellectual resource performance measurement guidelines have been defined. A possibility of applying the concept of organizational intellectual capital structure to perform city's intellectual resource inventory is investigated in this research. City's intellectual capital framework proposed here differs in a large number of composite components suggested and explained. Variety of internal components defined is useful for municipalities in the city's intellectual resource identification and, therefore, measuring its performance and making management decisions. The type of the article: Theoretical article.

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