Profiting from Intellectual Capital: Extracting Value from Innovation

PATRICK H. SULLIVAN, DBA, MS, BS, an expert at developing profits from intellectual assets, is a founding partner of The ICM Group, LLC, a consulting company focused on extracting value from intellectual capital. Dr. Sullivan has worked as an engineer on the launch team of the Saturn/Apollo moon project at Cape Kennedy. He has been a vice president of The MAC Group and a principal consultant at SRI International, where he managed the firm's general consulting practice in Europe. A sampling of his clients includes Dow Chemical, Xerox, General Motors, and Eastman Chemical. Dr. Sullivan is a Fellow of the American Council on Education, and a member of organizations that include the Licensing Executives Society (LES)-where he is currently Chairman of the Intellectual Capital Management Committee-the WIPO Trade Forum, and the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Section. A frequent speaker on intellectual capital management issues, Dr. Sullivan contributes articles regularly to the LES journal, Les Nouvelles, and is the coauthor of Technology Licensing, also published by Wiley.