Comments on: Exploding the Intangible Asset Market Cap myth http://www.thinkipstrategy.com/ipthinktank/411/exploding-the-intangible-asset-market-cap-myth/ Trusted advisors to the world's most innovative companies Mon, 16 Jan 2012 09:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Duncan http://www.thinkipstrategy.com/ipthinktank/411/exploding-the-intangible-asset-market-cap-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-1361 Duncan Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:18:02 +0000 http://localhost:100/thinkipstrategy/?p=411#comment-1361 <p>Hey, thanks jhon</p> Hey, thanks jhon

]]> By: jhon http://www.thinkipstrategy.com/ipthinktank/411/exploding-the-intangible-asset-market-cap-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-1360 jhon Thu, 12 Feb 2009 12:10:48 +0000 http://localhost:100/thinkipstrategy/?p=411#comment-1360 <p> Great article !   “Intangible assets” is an accounting term, which is defined as the cost of acquisition minus other assets. There is no direct link between a company’s balance sheet and its market cap. you can get more feed back from this as well.<br />http://www.avicennaaccounting.com/</p>  Great article !   “Intangible assets” is an accounting term, which is defined as the cost of acquisition minus other assets. There is no direct link between a company’s balance sheet and its market cap. you can get more feed back from this as well.
http://www.avicennaaccounting.com/

]]> By: Duncan http://www.thinkipstrategy.com/ipthinktank/411/exploding-the-intangible-asset-market-cap-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-1359 Duncan Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:45:04 +0000 http://localhost:100/thinkipstrategy/?p=411#comment-1359 <p>Hi Andrew<br />Great points, and thank you.<br />I agree (a) we should get away from the hyperbole and (b) the bottom line is that clearly intellectual capital (and IP as a component) is a significant part of the value of an entity.<br />And now we get to the point where just about everyone is in heated agreement.</p> Hi Andrew
Great points, and thank you.
I agree (a) we should get away from the hyperbole and (b) the bottom line is that clearly intellectual capital (and IP as a component) is a significant part of the value of an entity.
And now we get to the point where just about everyone is in heated agreement.

]]> By: andrew watson http://www.thinkipstrategy.com/ipthinktank/411/exploding-the-intangible-asset-market-cap-myth/comment-page-1/#comment-1354 andrew watson Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:05:13 +0000 http://localhost:100/thinkipstrategy/?p=411#comment-1354 <p>Duncan </p> <p>This is a good debate and one that is good to air. </p> <p>With the IP market still nascent it's become commonplace and, I think, self serving, to quote these sort of figures. I don't believe that the IP service providers do themselves any favours by doing so to a sophisticated audience. </p> <p>I used to slip into the same rhetoric myself in the early days of ipVA. What changed for me were two things, firstly access to a more sophisticated audience who quickly slaughtered the notion, second listening to many of the speakers at the IPBC in Amsterdam stating that "IP represented 80% of the value of the worlds capital markets". Almost as if by saying it as many times as possible it would become so and hoping that by clicking their heels and saying it more of the people that matter would pay attention. </p> <p>To take the debate forward, isn't it better to say that of the 70%-80% not represented by  tangible assets, it is safe to assume that a good part is made up of "intangibles". Not of IP, but of the combination of human and intellectual capital. </p> <p>Even if the number is 20% it is still an area that boards should pay attention to. Isn't it?</p> <p>Great blog by the way. </p> <p> </p> <p>Andrew </p> <p>ipVA</p> Duncan

This is a good debate and one that is good to air.

With the IP market still nascent it’s become commonplace and, I think, self serving, to quote these sort of figures. I don’t believe that the IP service providers do themselves any favours by doing so to a sophisticated audience.

I used to slip into the same rhetoric myself in the early days of ipVA. What changed for me were two things, firstly access to a more sophisticated audience who quickly slaughtered the notion, second listening to many of the speakers at the IPBC in Amsterdam stating that “IP represented 80% of the value of the worlds capital markets”. Almost as if by saying it as many times as possible it would become so and hoping that by clicking their heels and saying it more of the people that matter would pay attention.

To take the debate forward, isn’t it better to say that of the 70%-80% not represented by  tangible assets, it is safe to assume that a good part is made up of “intangibles”. Not of IP, but of the combination of human and intellectual capital.

Even if the number is 20% it is still an area that boards should pay attention to. Isn’t it?

Great blog by the way.

 

Andrew

ipVA

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