Human and Intellectual Capital Key Concepts

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The Human Value of the Enterprise

Treating people as assets of a company rather than simply as costs requires a credible system for valuing them. An index of value factors offers a very good way of doing this.
Managing Intellectual Capital

The limitations of financial reporting mean top corporations are looking to measure non-tangible assets such as intellectual capital, setting the trend for the next decade.
Protecting Your Intellectual Property—Nonregistered Rights

Rights which come into being automatically (e.g., design rights and copyright, which do not require registering) are also important routes for protecting intellectual property.
Intellectual Property: Patents—An International Overview

This article provides an international overview of patents.
Intellectual Property—Copyright

This article provides an overview of copyright and how it is used.

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Key Concepts provide you with definitions of buzzwords appearing in the media to ensure that you are up to speed with the current finance conversation. Produced in snapshot, glossary form, Key Concepts direct you to additional material to increase your knowledge and satisfy your interest.

Intellectual Property
The concept of intellectual property (IP) is designed to provide legal protection for creative assets, both of the artistic and commercial variety. Intellectual property law provides legal protection over intangible assets such as musical, literary, and artistic works, ideas, discoveries, and inventions, as well as words, phrases, symbols, and designs. IP can be protected by registering patents, trademarks, designs, and copyright with the...

Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), US essayist, lecturer, and poet
Source: “Art,” Essays: First Series (1841)

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Human and Intellectual Capital Key Concepts

Topic Highlights

The Human Value of the Enterprise

Managing Intellectual Capital

Protecting Your Intellectual Property—Nonregistered Rights

Intellectual Property: Patents—An International Overview

Intellectual Property—Copyright

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