http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2007/04/12/intellectual-property-is-the-new-valuation/ A Future Look at Today Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:38:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2007/04/12/intellectual-property-is-the-new-valuation/comment-page-1/#comment-7089 Owen’s musings » Blog Archive » Enclosure of the Commons - 21st Century Edition Sat, 12 May 2007 06:00:59 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2007/04/12/intellectual-property-is-the-new-valuation/#comment-7089 [...] Does this matter? I think it probably does. David Houle wrote last month about the growing economic importance of information in the value of economic production: In 1975, at the very beginning of the Information Age, 16.8% of the market capitalization of the S&P 500 was from intangible assets. By 1995, that number had grown to 68.4%, and in 2005 it was up to 79.7%, where I imagine it will level off in the years ahead. In the historically short time of thirty years there has been a fundamental shift in the concept of value, not unlike the transition from the land values of the Agricultural Age to the production values of the Industrial Age. [...] [...] Does this matter? I think it probably does. David Houle wrote last month about the growing economic importance of information in the value of economic production: In 1975, at the very beginning of the Information Age, 16.8% of the market capitalization of the S&P 500 was from intangible assets. By 1995, that number had grown to 68.4%, and in 2005 it was up to 79.7%, where I imagine it will level off in the years ahead. In the historically short time of thirty years there has been a fundamental shift in the concept of value, not unlike the transition from the land values of the Agricultural Age to the production values of the Industrial Age. [...]

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