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Managing Intellectual Property In A Knowledge Economy
Securing protection and commercializing IP are key considerations in a knowledge-driven economy. This characterization of our economy embraces knowledge as the driver of productivity and economic growth and is reinforced by the use of information, technology and learning in economic performance....
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Increased Regulation Drives Demand For Forensic Accounting Services
Major financial reforms and volatility following notorious frauds and scandals have led to outsized growth in the demand for forensic accounting services. During the past decade or so, Congress reacted to the WorldCom Inc. and Enron bankruptcies resulting from fraudulent financial reporting by...
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Cloud Computing Transactions Are The New “Wild West” Sales Tax Frontier As Jurisdictions Push Aggressively To Increase Online Revenue
To support a marketing initiative, you buy a list of prospective customers from a vendor in California. The list consists of raw data – names, addresses, e-mail addresses and phone numbers. The names are qualified but the vendor has not otherwise added value – there is no analysis...
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Before The Measurement Of Lost Profits: Investigating The Business And The Market To “Isolate” The Source Of A Decline
Businesses operate within the confines of a market and industry where the historical financial performance is affected by both internal and external factors and disruptions. General economic conditions, shocks to a specific industry or a locality, changes in the structure of the demand for the...
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The Importance Of Business Continuity Planning: Dealing With Inevitable Risk
Increased awareness of the need to prepare for risk and risk of disaster does not always translate into action. One of the reasons businesses choose not to become more actively involved in planning for increased preparedness is that they feel prior events are not likely to recur or that the...
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Reaping The Full Benefits Of Intellectual Property
Most Americans are unaware that intellectual property-intensive businesses account for nearly $6 trillion in value added, roughly equivalent to 40 percent of the U.S. GDP and greater than the GDP of any other nation in the world other than China. The opportunities contained in intellectual...
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U.S. And China Look To Each Other For Opportunity, Growth And Investor Returns
U.S. investors have been enthusiastically investing in Chinese businesses listing on U.S. exchanges in order to achieve returns that were believed to exceed those available in lower growth Western economies, including the U.S. Ironically, Chinese businesses have been buying U.S. businesses and...
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