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Collaboration as an Intangible Asset

Harvard Business Review

So it is with most breakthrough innovations and banner financial years. Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street. There is no line on the balance sheet for "ability to innovate" or "skill at managing brand." If ego and time allow, the list can be quite long.

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Filing for a Patent Versus Keeping Your Invention a Trade Secret

Harvard Business Review

Wyeth, a pharmaceutical acquired by Pfizer in 2009, was the sole supplier of Premarin. Why do some companies choose to patent their innovation while others choose to hide it? When facing the choice of patenting or hiding a valuable innovation, you must first ask yourself whether the invention is patentable at all.