Christian Grube analyses the value potential of patent protection of knowledge-based competitive advantages. His findings show that complex licensing contracts represent a profitable strategy to exploit the value of patented inventions and that bibliographic patent data can support the valuation...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis -- Chapter 3 National Intellectual Capital Development of the Five Emerging European Countries -- Chapter 4 Beyond the 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- Chapter 5 Future Prospectives and Policy Implications.

In the knowledge-driven economy, individuals and organizations need to look beyond their own boundaries to complement existing resources. Especially in research-intensive fields, effective and efficient knowledge sharing with collaboration partners has become the key to success. Based on a...

Deutschland gehört zu den größten Wissensproduzenten weltweit, rangiert aber beim Transfer dieses Wissens in die Praxis nur auf Platz 18 von 27 EU-Staaten. Marcel Hülsbeck untersucht die Determinanten der Umsetzung von universitären Forschungsergebnissen in technologische Innovationen. Es...

Fundamentals of financial accounting and reporting -- Foundation and challenges of intangible values in financial accounting and reporting -- Financial analysts as users of financial accounting and reporting information -- Perspective of financial analysts on information about intangibles.

This book describes how non-profit organisations (NPOs) communicate what they constitute, signal success and display sustainability in order to convince stakeholders to provide essential resources. Reports on intellectual capital offer a worthwhile approach. Based on empirical research, the book...

Die Schaffung, Zuordnung und Verwertung von IP-Rechten ist eine der interessantesten Herausforderungen, wenn es um die Steuerplanung geht. Einer Bandbreite attraktiver Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten stehen nicht unerhebliche Risiken und die politische Forderung nach einer verantwortungsvollen...

Contents -- Foreword: Markku Markkula -- Foreword: Nick Bontis -- Foreword: Se-Hwa Wu -- Preface: Leif Edvinsson -- Preface: Carol Yeh-Yun Lin -- Executive Summary -- 1. Introduction -- Economic Background -- 2. Impact of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis -- 3. National Intellectual Capital...