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Article: Ocean Tomo Catches the Wave in Valuing Intellectual Property
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- May 6, 2007
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Some of the manufacturing jobs that built American industrial
might have left for foreign shores. Services, too, are taking wing.
American capital now crosses the border with the ease of a mouse
click.
What remain at the core of today's U.S. economy are innovative
ideas -- intellectual capital.
But even as economists and corporate executives acknowledge this
new reality, they've found it difficult to accurately measure the
worth of ideas to companies and the economy.
That's where Keith Cardoza came in. An asset manager at Ocean
Tomo, a Chicago financial services firm specializing in intellectual
property, Cardoza concluded the marketplace was failing to keep pace
with the economy's ...