Intellectual resources and their control in the activity of consultants of Agricultural consulting centre of Lithuania

ENThe article deals with the recent conception of knowledge based business intellectual resources, their part in agricultural activity and development tendencies. The work reveals the place of intellectual resources in the system of other business organization resources, emphasizes the interaction with the surrounding, analyzes the influence of its potential in meeting the needs of users. The article states that knowledge, directed to the products and services, forms the biggest part of society value, and applied technologies intellectualization guaranty a significant growth of productivity. The goods and services are systematically becoming more receptive for science knowledge. The article treats intellectual resources as a good and shows that the attainability and the usage capacity of knowledge in economy usually depend on whether knowledge is of social or private value. A theoretical research of the competence have been made on the basis of scientific literature analysis, with the intention to determine the strategies, methods and needs of qualification improvement in the works of various authors. There have been analysed the activity of foreign consulting centres and the improvement of consultants’ qualification. A model of consultants’ competence, reflecting all the versatile consulting activity: from the professional knowledge to the ability to communicate and understand the needs of the client was made according to the data of inquery through a method of modelling. For the observation and analysis, similar researches have been made in foreign countries and Lithuania. Summarizing the research material, it can be said that the improvement of consultants’ qualification in the consulting centre is implemented constantly, systematically and readily, as well as different methods are used. Still, there is a lack of motivation for qualification improvement and self-seeking. Keywords: intellectual resources, information, knowledge, competence.