Tweets on 2010-05-27
Presenting In Tacoma, WA at Regional Innovation and Jobs Summit. Leveraging Intangibles workshop to map state's resources for innovation. # Dr. Rob Atkinson describing why US has fallen behind innovation:no urgency, poor investment level in R+D, policy #wedc # US needs National Innovation Strategy #wedc # Powered by Twitter Tools
Tweets on 2010-05-25
http://bit.ly/cyoPMm Great and funny insight into Russian billionaire/new NJ Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov by ESPN's Sports Guy Bill Simmons. # Powered by Twitter Tools
Knowledge is a fundamentally different kind of economic asset
You have probably heard of the the Knowledge Era. You know that we shifted from the Industrial to the Knowledge Era sometime in the recent past. What you may not understand is the implication of this shift for economics–and for your own organization. The big difference comes from this simple fact: Knowledge is infinite. Yes, [...]
Problems ordering Intangible Capital? Here’s the solution.
Our book launch has been going well. Maybe too well. Amazon quickly shifted from offering delivery in a week to posting it as available in 2-4 weeks!! Please know that this is not the case. A new shipment of books is on the way to them. But we haven’t been able to get through to [...]
Knowledge starts as a commodity…how it ends up depends on how it is packaged to meet a market need
The first thing to understand about knowledge is that, like oil, it is almost like a commodity, widely used and widely available. You could almost describe it as a natural resource. This resource is widely available in any library, on the Internet and given away regularly on television and in public schools. There is no [...]
Knowledge is the New Oil
—OilIt is hard to imagine the tangible economy without oil. It fuels our cars and trucks. It generates electricity to power our factories and homes. It serves as a raw material for products we use everyday, from plastics to fabrics, fertilizers, and high tech materials. These many uses for oil have made this commodity a [...]
Three Ways to Adapt Your Organization to the Knowledge Era
The knowledge era is here to stay. But most organizations have not yet completely caught up with this seismic shift. In our new book Intangible Capital, we address three ways to think about adapting your organization: The New Factory focuses on the performance of your intangible capital. The New Management is about driving innovation in [...]
Tweets on 2010-05-19
http://bit.ly/cjbHWR Boston Globe issued its Top 100 MA publicly-traded businesses (2009-only 82 qual.) Factors-sales, profits, & margins # Powered by Twitter Tools
Intangible Capital Authors to Help State of Washington Build Its Innovation Ecosystem
The Washington Economic Development Commission has invited Intangible Capital authors Mary Adams and Michael Oleksak to lead an exercise to help the state’s key regions to map and improve their innovation ecosystems. The exercise will take place at next week’s Regional Innovation and Jobs Summit in Tacoma, Washington.
About the Authors of Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st Century Organization
We (Mary Adams and Michael Oleksak) are both former bankers who began our careers just as the IBM PC hit the marketplace in the early 1980s. That was actually the moment when a discernible “extra” value became visible in the public markets over and above the book value of corporate assets. In hindsight, economists now [...]
