By Louis-Pierre Gravelle (Link) and Cliff Pavlovic, PhD (Link) With the growth of the knowledge based economy, value of a company will be increasingly formed by its intangible assets, such as intellectual property (IP) and know-how. It is estimated that, currently, 70% of the valuation of companies is comprised of these type of assets (The...
If you are investing in, merging or acquiring a business, you need to know the real value of all its assets, including its technology and the strategy behind it. In addition, if you want to license, buy or sell technology, you need to know its value. To determine the value of a technology, multiple elements need to be examined. Of course, one of...
Intangibles are very often not valued, either private or public companies. Intangibles can comprise 70% of a company’s worth (The Telegraph, Feb 2017). Their balance sheets will indicate a number (and most often not), yet this is not the true value of their intangible assets, such as intellectual property (IP) or know-how. This is due to...