We are a full service management consulting, asset management and technology commercialisation company advising clients on how to systematically extract value from intangibles such as: knowledge, know-how, innovation, intellectual assets, and intellectual property and assisting companies to obtain licensing revenues for their inventions by developing those ideas to the point of commercial readiness and doing the business development work needed to obtain licenses.
At a personal level, I am a UK national, born in Scotland, living near Bangkok in Thailand. I advise in Europe and Asia on the extraction of value through the application of an intellectual asset and capital management (IA&CM) approach and am the Asia based affiliate of the Intellectual Capital Management Group of Palo Alto, California, (www.icmginc.com), a leading consultancy specialising in helping companies extract the most value from their innovations by applying an approach based on mining the intangibles within the organisation to the full.
In addition, I am Founding Board Chairman of The National Intellectual Asset Centre of Scotland, a publicly funded company chartered to inform. advise and influence industry in Scotland on the opportunities and risks inherent in intangibles, with the objective that Corporate Scotland become increasingly more aware and capable of managing these risks and capitalising on intellectual assets. This centre, founded in 2003, is believed to be the first of its kind in Europe, perhaps in the world.
This web site is designed to provide you some insight into intangibles, intellectual assets and intellectual capital, and how these can be recognised, managed and used to create value through an approach which we term Intellectual Capital Management. You will find an outline of the services available on this site and the linked site of ICMG. In addition, a complete curriculum vitae, reading references and an updated list of partners is provided. In a monthly updated news section, current informative issues are discussed.
Our approach to intellectual capital management is that any activity must support the vision and strategy of the business. The roles played by the intellectual property (protected rights), the intellectual assets (codified information with a potential to create value) and human capital must be balanced and complementary.
Our approach to business is to discuss needs and potential solutions with you and, where appropriate, to propose a work plan which can be jointly revised to create a job proposal or specification. |
