Value-Driven Intellectual Capital: How to Convert Intangible Corporate Assets into Market Value

PATRICK H. SULLIVAN ([email protected]) is an expert at creating profits from intellectual assets and is considered one of the leading conceptual thinkers in extracting value from intellectual capital. He is a founding partner of the ICM Group, a Palo Alto, California-based consulting company focused on managing intellectual capital to maximize value. He is also cofounder of the ICM Gathering, composed of managers of intellectual capital for large, diverse international companies who meet to exchange information on new and innovative management techniques.
He is a frequent speaker on a range of topics concerning the management of intellectual capital including stock value, licensing, and developing profits from IC. He is a member of the Licensing Executives Society (where he was the founding chairman of its Intellectual Capital Management Committee), the World Intellectual Property Trade Forum, and the American Bar Association Intellectual Property Licensing Section, and a fellow of the American Council on Education. He is a frequent contributor of articles on intellectual capital management for leading journals, the author of Profiting from Intellectual Capital, and the coauthor of Technology Licensing: Corporate Strategies for Maximizing Value, both published by Wiley.