Valuation and Dealmaking of Technology-Based Intellectual Property
Principles, Methods & Tools
Chapter One
Introduction to Opportunity Discovery,
Valuation, and Dealmaking
In this opening chapter we will review briefly the key points of Technology D-V-D,
namely the Approaches of opportunity Discovery, Valuation, and Dealmaking,
and the valuation Methods and Tools to be developed in this book.
Introduction: Technology D-V-D
This book is about three business processes used for transforming technology into
money, usually by way of a license agreement. These processes, here referred
to as Approaches, are technology: (1) opportunity Discovery, (2) Valuation, and
(3) Dealmaking; the overall process is then designated Technology or Licensing
D-V-D, where each letter corresponds to the respective Approach.
About half of this book is on the Approach of Valuation. There are mountains
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