Real Options and Intellectual Property: Capital Budgeting Under Imperfect Patent Protection

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Over the last years, due to intensive competition in the knowledge economy, legal aspects surrounding intellectual property (IP) rights – including litigation and settlement – have continuously gained in importance. Correspondingly, professional IP management has become an indispensable element of successful value-based management (VBM) in research-intensive firms.

With this text, the author proposes an integrated approach to patent risk and capital budgeting in pharmaceutical research and development (R and D), developing an option-based view (OBV) of imperfect patent protection, which draws upon contingent-claims analysis, stochastic game theory, as well as novel numerical methods. Bridging a widening gap between recent advances in the theory of financial analysis and current challenges faced by pharmaceutical companies, the text re-initiates a discussion about the contribution of quantitative frameworks to value-based R and D management.

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New York based biotech seek Director, Regulatory Affairs – Real Resourcing – Westchester, NY

New York based biotech seek Director, Regulatory Affairs – $Excellent$

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Raleigh Real Estate | Discover North Carolina’s Best

Set aside for a moment any misconception you might have about Raleigh. Consider it anew. Like the rest of the country, Raleigh is working hard to pull itself out of a recession. It is using its vast arsenal of economic muscle to enter the coming years with a healthy city budget. But to set aside misconceptions, you need to understand the mechanics of Raleigh’s economy, culture and politics.

Raleigh is divided into seven neighborhoods. Downtown is the epicenter, housing historic homes, boutique shops and fine restaurants. It is a pleasant walking area that attracts many annual visitors for its eclectic culture and regional tastes.

East Raleigh works as a kind of corridor, connecting many of the city’s main roads and allowing traffic to flow in and out of the area.

West Raleigh lies along Hillsborough Street and Western Boulevard. It is home to many colleges, churches and museums. It also serves as a thoroughfare, but many people still call this area home. An array of stately mansions and beautiful southern homes line the streets.

North Raleigh is a growing suburban area with diverse neighborhoods and attractions. It has a generous amount of stores, restaurants and schools. Many young families call this area home, with parents either working within the suburb or traveling into the city center.

Midtown Raleigh, which used to be considered part of North Raleigh, is now its own neighborhood that boasts many residential and commercial real estate properties. Its shopping centers, parks, and streets lined with Oak trees make it a pleasant place to live and work.

South Raleigh and Southeast Raleigh are bound to downtown, but remain individual places, steeped in history and regional culture. In these areas there are numerous museums, concert venues and other attractions that focus on the Civil War and various significant time periods in the south’s history.

Raleigh’s industrial base includes electrical, medical, electronic and telecommunications equipment; clothing and apparel; food processing; paper products; and pharmaceuticals. Raleigh is part of North Carolina’s Research Triangle, one of the country’s largest and most successful research parks and a major center in the United States for high-tech and biotech research, as well as advanced textile development. The city is a major retail shipping point for eastern North Carolina and a wholesale distributing point for the grocery industry.

Despite the country’s troubled economy, Raleigh maintains a steady, healthy way of life, celebrating its rich, mountainous surroundings and substantial contributions to modern day business and cultural with a peaceful way of life and southern charm.

Regulatory Directors in different disciplines, growing Biotech, – Real Resourcing – Rochester, NY

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Times Private Treaties Sets Sight On Real Estate Sector

Times Private Treaties has in the first two months of the year invested in quick succession in Kumar Properties and Kanakia Spaces. Times Private Treaties has spread its investment across a mix of firms in pursuance of its strategy of expanding the advertising market and bringing a larger number of firms into the advertising market.

Times Private Treaties has closed a deal with Kumar Properties, a diversified group founded by Mr K H Oswal over four decades ago. The company has evolved over the years from builders of apartments to high rise buildings, bungalows and large sixe complexes. Over the past decade, the company has diversified into Information Technology Parks, commercial buildings, large townships and malls. The firm also has a strategic alliance with GIC Real Estate.

The investment in Kanakia Spaces took place in the last part of January.  The company is engaged in real estate activities in suburban Mumbai and is part of the Kanakia Group, the premium real estate developers in Mumbai. The Group has to its credit 8 million square feet of delivered residential and commercial properties and has another 23 million sq ft under construction.

The investments by Times Private Treaties are seen as the return of the real estate market. The demand for offices is coming back according to reports and there is some firming up of prices in Bangalore and Mumbai. However, that said, much of the recovery is still in pockets, with demand mostly coming from telecom, biotech and financial services, with most companies consolidating small offices into one big space.

Given the context, the Times Private Treaty model fits the real estate sector well at a time when higher visibility through advertising is an essential component of the market strategy. The Times Private Treaties’ innovative approach to giving companies a fast track to the market by offsetting the cost of advertising space to equity seems to be a classic solution to helping both the advertising market expand while giving companies a good alternative to keep their brand building going. While being a risk sharer by selling out space against future gains, the invested company tends to be the winner by getting considerable advertising muscle.

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