The objective of this article was to: Establish the importance of Intellectual Capital in business innovation. For this, a bibliographic review was carried out, analyzing the state of the art of the same in this way being able to identify as the intellectual capital and its three components; structural capital, organizational capital and relational capital; influence business innovation. Thus, the importance of this article lies in the fact of showing that it is the intangible factors and components that can lead a company to a better financial situation, thus respecting its members and how they feel satisfied to carry out their activities. activities for the company in which they work, leading the company to be able to innovate and improve itself, being able to achieve better goals that may be set in the future. This article takes into account referents of the last 5 years for the bibliographic review, as well as its antecedents, in this way it is that a "fresh" state of the art is maintained, concluding in this way that the intellectual capital managed in the correct way allows that various innovations take place based on the satisfaction of its employees

intellectual capital, business innovation, structural capital, organizational capital, relational capita