Edison in the Boardroom: How Leading Companies Realize Value from Their Intellectual Assets

INDEX

A

Abandonment candidates (portfolio mining), 165

ABI-Inform (web site), 179

Accounting, 4, 133, 139–140, 187

Acquisition targets, 173

Agents, patent, 62–63

Aggregate renewal decisions, 63–65

Allen, Jim, 150

Amati, 119

Amazon.com, 3, 132

American National Can company, 40

Amgen, Inc., 40

Andersen, 11, 28

Apple Computer, 70

Assessment(s):

competitive, see Competitive assessment

employee, 29

Asset(s):

intellectual, 2, 11

IP as business, 67, 96

IP as legal, 21

IP as strategic, 123

knowledge, 153

tangible vs. intangible, 6–7

Assignment of intellectual property, 37

Attorneys, 20, 21, 33, 147

Audits:

of intangibles, 26

royalty, 77, 82, 84–86

Authority and Activity Matrix, 87–90

Avery Dennison, 31, 48, 105, 112

Awards, 30

B

Balanced scorecard, 188–189

Bank of Montreal, 193

Benchmarking, 11, 78, 191–192

Benkgay, Lee, 32

Best practices, 11, 12

Black, Hugo, 22

Blair, Margaret, 6

Boehm, Fred, 35, 107–108

Boeing Company, 27

Borealis, 48

Boston Scientific Corp., 40

Brainstorming, 178

Bramson, Bob, 75–76

Brookings Institution, 133–135, 140

Bush, John, 32

Business asset, IP as, 96

Business Planning & Research International, 71

Business process patents, 129–131

Business strategy, see Strategy(-ies)

C

Canada:

number of patents filed in, 4

performance measurement and reporting, 133, 136

Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA), 133, 136, 138, 184, 186, 193, 194. See also Integrated Performance Reporting

Canadian Performance Reporting Initiative (CPRI), 136, 192, 195

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