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In This Issue     Feature: The Real Value of Intellectual Property   A World-Changing Transfer of IP The Value of IP What to Do   Quotes of the Week   Upgrades   Wireless Wars or Content Wars? Handset Battles The Sony Hack: The New New CyberReality? Optical Batteries?   Ethermail   Takeout Window   Form Meets Function: The New Tesla S Sedan and Samsung Series 5 Chromebook SNS Opportunities and Licenses   Upcoming SNS Events & Media Links   In Other House News   New Members' Welcome SNS Positions Open How to Subscribe May I Share This Newsletter? About SNS About the Publisher Where's Mark?

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The Real Value of Intellectual Property

 

We live in the Information Age, we're told. But I would like to recast how you see global economics so, with your permission, I am going to ask that you add this verbiage to the pile of traditional global economic thoughts about financial fund flows, balance sheets, and price/earnings ratios. Really, so Yesterday.

 

Today, I would suggest, we live in the Innovation Age. And the result of innovation, done properly, is Intellectual Property: the design of a Boeing wing or a Lockheed fighter cockpit, a missile-capable nuclear weapon, a Ford drive train, a chip, an operating system, a movie, a song, a running shoe.

 

These are the creations that power the global economy today: it's the iPhone, and not the plastics or metals inside it, which represents the fastest-growing, and most critical and valuable, aspects of the global economy.

 

But how valuable? And to whom?