Intangibles at the National Academies
In June, the U.S. National Academies hosted a conference entitled Intangible Assets: Measuring and Enhancing Their Contribution to Corporate Value and Economic Growth.
Many of the participants were economists from the U.S. government, a few academics, and a small number of consultants and business people. It was an exciting development for those of us that have been dismayed at the limited U.S. participation in the international conversation on intangibles. Most of the presentations are available on line here. There is a lot of good content here. One of my favorites was a presentation On the Transition from the Industrial to the Knowledge Economy: A point of view inspired by Adam Smith by Irving Wladawsky-Berger of IBM and MIT. He puts the shift to the intangible economy in the context of technology, services and business processes.
You might also be interested in my more detailed observations on the conference at hybridvigor.
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