Intellectual Property: Useless Without The ‘Intellect’
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009A belated Happy New Year! There hasn’t been much time for blogging at RI-towers of late. Anyone here who thought the credit crunch might bring a well-earned rest has been disappointed; lots to do.
The surge of work for us seems to be proving the theory that investors are doing more technical due diligence during the downturn.
There was, however, time to read the read the excellent “Nanotechnologies in 2009: Creative Destruction or Credit Crunch” (opens as PDF) by bleeding-edge investor, nanotechnology guru and prolific blogger Tim Harper.
In addition to some characteristically fascinating insight about a widening funding gap, the sacrifice of billion-dollar potential revenues, and the “hokey cokey” approach he expects to see from Clean Tech investors in coming months, he also mentions the danger for investors in raiding “fire sales” for valuable intellectual property: it is frequently worthless without the people who thought it up.
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