The 5th International Forum on Knowledge Asset Dynamics aims to encourage discussions about intellectual capital research and management practices for addressing complexity, uncertainty and changes of today's business landscape. Nowadays private and public organizations have to face uncertainty, crisis, change, turbulence, and high competitive pressure. In this context it is critical to understand which is the role of intellectual capital and particularly what are the key intellectual capital components to be developed and managed in order to deal with the fluidity of business. This also involves the understanding of the approaches, models and tools for assessing and managing intellectual capital to support the renew and the development of new business models aligned with the evolution of the competitive scenario.