IC Links & Resources

IC Links

IP Society: Provides forums to discuss issues surrounding Intellectual Property

KM Cluster: Provides forums to discuss next practices in Knowledge Management

Intellectual Capital Services: Provides links to all manner of Intellectual Capital issues

Patent Café Magazine: Provides current news and information about Intellectual Property

Tynax, the Technology Trading Exchange: Provides a forum for technology professionals to exchange ideas, information and intellectual property.

Recommended Readings

Margaret M. Blair and Steven M. H. Wallman, Unseen Wealth: The Report of the Brookings Task Force on Intangibles . Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC; 2001.

Leif Edvinsson and Michael S. Malone, Intellectual Capital: Realizing Your Company's True Value by Finding Its Hidden Brainpower. Harper Business, New York, NY; 1997.

Baruch Lev, Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting . Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC; 2001.

Robert C. Megantz, Technology Management: Developing and Implementing Effective Licensing Programs. John Wiley & Sons; 2002.

Gordon V. Smith and Russell L. Parr, Valuation of Intellectual Property and Intangible Assets, 3rd Edition. John Wiley & Sons; 2002.

Patrick H. Sullivan, Profiting from Intellectual Capital: Extracting Value from Innovation. John Wiley & Sons; 1998.

David Smith, Zero-to-IPO & Other Fun Destinations, Cambridge Manhattan Group, Menlo Park, CA; 2003.

“What is new, driving the recent (since the mid-1980s) surge in intangibles, is the unique combination of two related economic forces. One is intensified business competition, brought about by the globalization of trade and deregulation in key economic sectors (for example, telecommunications, electricity, transportation, financial services). The second is the advent of information technologies, most recently exemplified by the Internet. These two fundamental developments—one economic and political, the other technological— have dramatically changed the structure of corporations and have catapulted intangibles to the role of the major value driver of business in developed economies.”

-- Baruch Lev, Intangibles

“Intellectual capital can be as ephemeral as the Holy Grail. In Arthurian legend, when Sir Galahad was allowed to gaze directly into the Grail's divine mysteries, he renounced the material world and was borne aloft on angels' wings. That won't do for a business executive, who needs to make intellectual mysteries serve material purposes.”

-- Thomas A. Stewart