As knowledgeandintellectualproperty become more important than physical capital, businesses feel compelled to protect that intellectual capital by taking extraordinary steps.
Intellectualproperty such as patents, institutional knowledge collected and stored by employees, sentiment gleaned from millions of social media posts, and consumer insights from the analysis of myriad online transactions are just a few examples of information assets companies leverage today.
He says securing intellectualproperty (IP) ownership has become increasingly challenging because of the volume of open-source knowledgeand the huge number of existing patents.