We highlight Open Text’s announced acquisition of Vizible last week for two reasons . . .
We continue to follow the discussion regarding the threat to intangible property caused by the recession. While the information assurance industry is large and has always been vital to the information economy, company executives are increasingly aware of a relatively new security threat to intangible assets, particularly intellectual property: laid-off employees, disgruntled or just desperate to pay the bills. McAfee commissioned an excellent report titled Unsecured Economies: Protecting Vital Information from information assurance professors at Purdue University and the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). A few highlights that relate to 2i topics follow:
Filed Under Intangible Assets, Intellectual Property, Recession
Following our blog last week tracking two articles discussing IP in the recession, I happened across Michael Moberly’s and JongPil Cheon’s article Use Intangible Assets to Weather the Financial Crisis (you may need to sign up for the trial subscription to download the PDF). The article provides a good theoretical overview on the importance of, and how to identify, intangible assets. Mr. Moberly is a long-time educater, practitioner and advocate of the strategic importance of intangible assets. I’m a regular reader of Mr. Moberly’s Business IP and Intangible Asset Report and Blog, where he discusses other important aspects of intangible assets from a strategic perspective.
Filed Under Intangible Assets, Intellectual Property, Recession
You know times are tough when there is more than just the occasional article discussing intellectual property issues. We think IP is cool, exciting stuff but it’s not a big seller of newspapers and magazines. (Ironically, these are the folks that should consider selling IP to supplement their obsolete business model.) Bloomberg and Bank Systems Technology each published interesting articles on the subject today.
The only way MergerMarket’s latest survey on intellectual property and M&A transactions could be a better plug for Intangible Insights is if they had surveyed middle market internet companies rather than ”50 senior executives and private equity practitioners” (not likely to be internet companies) and published the same results. M&A Insights: Spotlight on Intellectual Property Rights shows the growing importance of IP in the knowledge economy. It also shows that while executives acknowledge the importance of IP in a transaction, it doesn’t receive the attention it should.
The entire report is well worth reading, but a few key highlights follow (another link to the report is on our Research page):
Filed Under Intellectual Property, Merger & Acquisitions
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