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Welcome to our articles page, where you'll find information from Inngot and elsewhere relating to key issues connected with intangible assets and intellectual property.

This is where we post our own articles and newsletters, and provide links to information provided by us which has been published elsewhere on the Internet. In addition, you can read some of our recent press releases below.
If you're a journalist looking for further information, either on Inngot or on the subjects we cover, we'd be happy to hear from you. Just e-mail press@inngot.com or give our sales office a call on 01235 854085.
Latest News
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Inngot is working with the Technology Strategy Board and the Intellectual Property Office to provide IP Central, a community network providing resources on all aspects of IP, hosted on the TSB’s _connect platform.
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A new report, authored by Inngot for the 'EcoMind' cross-border initiative co-funded by the EU, has just been published. It investigates the IP challenges and solutions of most relevance to sustainable innovation.
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Sollomon online IP valuation reports have been updated, and now feature explanatory icons, additional graphics and re-ordered content to make them simpler to navigate, all for the same price of £240+VAT.
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David Hulston, founding director of Scipher plc and QED Intellectual Property, has joined the board of Inngot as a non-executive director.
Inngot articles to read or download
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Back in the industrial age, tangible assets like plant and equipment were the secret to building substantial company value. But in today's businesses, it's the way you harness and multiply know-how, not manpower, that makes the difference.
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A "layman's guide" to the main approaches accountants generally use to assess the value of a given set of intellectual property and intangible assets, with some ideas of their respective advantages and disadvantages.
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Where to find them in your business - and what to do with them
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Wherever a business uses specialist knowledge to serve its customers, its activities will have intellectual property (IP) at their core. This IP might...
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Traditionally, "innovation" has been viewed as being synonymous with scientific discovery and the development of new physical products. Accordingly, it has...
Inngot comment in other publications
Getting a grip on intellectual assets (Intellectual Property Office website)
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Martin Brassell, Chief Executive of Inngot, explains how to find intellectual assets in your business, and what to do with them...
Is your IP fully utilised? (businessfirst.org.uk, published with the Sunday Times)
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Intellectual property has too long been seen as a guard against imitators and should be better used forging partnerships and raising valuations...
Safeguarding your IP assets (newbusiness.co.uk)
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Intellectual property is about much more than just patents and your firm must protect these assets.
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Copyright rather than patents could help IT organisations capitalise on their intellectual assets.
Careful with that copyright (computerworlduk.com)
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Just because copyright is automatic, it doesn't mean you can let it look after itself.
The financial future of intellectual property (www.intellectualpropertymagazine.com)
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Intellectual property has a vital role to play in stimulating economic recovery
Selected Inngot press releases
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The CI KTN, part of the UK Government's Technology Strategy Board with a remit to promote creativity and innovation in the UK's creative industries, today, in conjunction with Inngot, welcomed Professor Ian Hargreaves' proposed changes to copyright and IP law.
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Research by the UK's innovation directory has found that over 40% of business owners are unsure whether they can trust employees with their company's intellectual property. The most common fear is that staff may try to use it for their own financial gain.
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Inngot, the UK's showcase for innovative businesses and their intellectual assets has become a member of the adviser network of xénos, the Wales Business Angel Network, giving xénos angels and member companies preferential access to a useful and unique IP valuation system developed in conjunction with Grant Thornton UK LLP.
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A new study by the UK's first showcase for innovative businesses and their intellectual property (IP) shows that while most business owners in the UK are "IP aware", many do not realise these intellectual assets have monetary worth.
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The UK's first showcase for innovative businesses and their intellectual property has appointed former Société Générale managing director Jerry Moore...(first released September 2010)
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Inngot's "Directory of innovation" goes national, to help businesses unlock the value in their intellectual property...(first released September 2010)
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Inngot, the UK's first showcase for innovative businesses and their intellectual property (IP), has launched an indicative valuation model...(first released 18 March 2010)
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Swansea-based Inngot is a new online marketplace... (first released 9 June 2009)
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Inngot is a new online showcase... (first released 28 May 2009)
Inngot newsletter articles
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Don't miss out on out valuations offer, find out how we can help with IP Insurance and learn how to raise your profile with big business ... read more
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You can now get an indicative valuation of the assets you've registered with Inngot, using the "Sollomon" methodology developed with specialist input from Grant Thornton UK LLP... read more
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There's now a new basic level of Inngot membership that's free of charge, so that everyone in the knowledge economy can use our search tools to find interesting innovations like yours... read more
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Work has now started on the latest "Beacon" project from the Creative Industries Knowledge Transfer Network, being led by Inngot, into the challenges of realising value from copyright assets... read more
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Inngot's pilot exercise supported by the Welsh Assembly Government has helped to identify and value a wide range of intellectual assets being developed by enterprising businesses... read more