Patent-backed debt finance: should company law take the lead to provide a "true and fair" view of SME patent assets?

The most important high technology intellectual property (IP) rights in terms of innovation are patents,a form of intangible property right. Even though these corporate assets drive 21st century technological innovation, patent-backed lending to UK SMEs remains underdeveloped. One reason is that t...

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Main Author: Denoncourt, Janice A.
Format: Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2015
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description The most important high technology intellectual property (IP) rights in terms of innovation are patents,a form of intangible property right. Even though these corporate assets drive 21st century technological innovation, patent-backed lending to UK SMEs remains underdeveloped. One reason is that the value of their internally generated patents is under-reported in traditional financial statements due to the application of International Accounting Standard 38 Intangibles. The accounting problem is exacerbated by the fact that SMEs are exempt from company law requirements to present a directors’ Strategic Report in their annual return to Companies House. The astonishing lack of quantitative and qualitative public information about corporate IP assets makes it difficult to assess their strategic value (“the patent value story”) and directors’ stewardship of those assets. While this may restrict access to debt finance, this thesis argues there is a wider corporate governance issue. More relevant, accurate and timely corporate IP information (mostly known to internal management) is needed to triangulate intangibles financial data through cross verification with corporate narrative disclosure. The multidisciplinary insights into the transparency corporate problem and how directors fulfil existing obligations to provide “true and fair” IP information under UK law provide an academic audience with a deeper level of legal analysis concerning the intersection between: (1) the patent ecosystem; (2) accounting for intangibles; (3) patent-backed debt finance; and (3) corporate disclosure. Knowledge is advanced with an original business triage style Essential, Desirable & Optional narrative corporate disclosure model.
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spelling nottingham-307432017-10-15T00:54:20Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30743/ Patent-backed debt finance: should company law take the lead to provide a "true and fair" view of SME patent assets? Denoncourt, Janice A. The most important high technology intellectual property (IP) rights in terms of innovation are patents,a form of intangible property right. Even though these corporate assets drive 21st century technological innovation, patent-backed lending to UK SMEs remains underdeveloped. One reason is that the value of their internally generated patents is under-reported in traditional financial statements due to the application of International Accounting Standard 38 Intangibles. The accounting problem is exacerbated by the fact that SMEs are exempt from company law requirements to present a directors’ Strategic Report in their annual return to Companies House. The astonishing lack of quantitative and qualitative public information about corporate IP assets makes it difficult to assess their strategic value (“the patent value story”) and directors’ stewardship of those assets. While this may restrict access to debt finance, this thesis argues there is a wider corporate governance issue. More relevant, accurate and timely corporate IP information (mostly known to internal management) is needed to triangulate intangibles financial data through cross verification with corporate narrative disclosure. The multidisciplinary insights into the transparency corporate problem and how directors fulfil existing obligations to provide “true and fair” IP information under UK law provide an academic audience with a deeper level of legal analysis concerning the intersection between: (1) the patent ecosystem; (2) accounting for intangibles; (3) patent-backed debt finance; and (3) corporate disclosure. Knowledge is advanced with an original business triage style Essential, Desirable & Optional narrative corporate disclosure model. 2015-12-07 Thesis (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by_nc_nd https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30743/1/J%20Denoncourt%20PhD%20eThesis%20June%202015.pdf Denoncourt, Janice A. (2015) Patent-backed debt finance: should company law take the lead to provide a "true and fair" view of SME patent assets? PhD thesis, University of Nottingham. accounting standard annual report annual return corporate governance corporate reporting corporate disclosure disclosure intellectual property IP IPR IAS 38 narrative reporting SME strategic report true and fair view
spellingShingle accounting standard
annual report
annual return
corporate governance
corporate reporting
corporate disclosure
disclosure
intellectual property
IP
IPR
IAS 38
narrative reporting
SME
strategic report
true and fair view
Denoncourt, Janice A.
Patent-backed debt finance: should company law take the lead to provide a "true and fair" view of SME patent assets?
title Patent-backed debt finance: should company law take the lead to provide a "true and fair" view of SME patent assets?
title_full Patent-backed debt finance: should company law take the lead to provide a "true and fair" view of SME patent assets?
title_fullStr Patent-backed debt finance: should company law take the lead to provide a "true and fair" view of SME patent assets?
title_full_unstemmed Patent-backed debt finance: should company law take the lead to provide a "true and fair" view of SME patent assets?
title_short Patent-backed debt finance: should company law take the lead to provide a "true and fair" view of SME patent assets?
title_sort patent-backed debt finance: should company law take the lead to provide a "true and fair" view of sme patent assets?
topic accounting standard
annual report
annual return
corporate governance
corporate reporting
corporate disclosure
disclosure
intellectual property
IP
IPR
IAS 38
narrative reporting
SME
strategic report
true and fair view
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/30743/