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Chapter 18: protecting, leveraging and auditing your company's intellectual capital.
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Fast Track Business Growth
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January 1, 2001
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WITH THE SHIFT IN OUR ECONOMY FROM THE Industrial Age to the Information Age, companies of all sizes in virtually all industries are facing the challenge of how to adapt to the knowledge era to enhance their performance and productivity. Countless articles in business publications remind us daily that "Intellectual Capital" represents the most important asset of most companies and represents a rapidly increasing portion of a growth company's overall valuation and balance sheet. Today's fast-track growth-company leaders need to be very focused on the creation, protection and extraction of value from the company's intellectual-property assets.
In this new economy, the speed ...