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Intellectual Property and Assessing Its Financial Value
Once the 2010 levels for all key costs and revenues have been established,
the real increase in these values over time must be added to the model.
Costs and revenues remain in 2010 dollar values, but the real increases in
costs and revenues (11.8 percent and 2.9 percent per annum respectively)
must also be extrapolated. Obviously, for the years after 2010 similar
cost increases need to be considered. Via marketing studies, one can
obtain a better view of the actual growth rate (CAGR) for a specific
product class until a specific determined point in time.
In this way, all costs and revenues ...