Intangibles Demanding Visibility.

• Author: Heffes, Ellen M.
• Position: Brief Article

The move towards valuing intangible assets and their contribution to an organization's economic growth is gaining momentum and the attention of broader audiences. One source adding to the dialog is a task force assembled by the Brookings Institution.

Unseen Wealth, the report published by The Brookings Task Force on Intangibles, raises issues and makes recommendations for government and business to work together to improve the quality and reliability of information about intangibles. The report represents two years of research by the group of business leaders, consultants, accounting professionals, economists, intellectual property lawyers and policy analysts, co-chaired by Margaret M. Blair and Steven M. H. Wallman. Blair is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor at Georgetown University Law Center...