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BDC CAPITAL FUNDS
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
VENTURES
Research shows the future growth of
the Canadian economy will come from
innovation and knowledge.
The percentage of corporate value for
S&P 500 companies has changed this
way over time:
Source: Intangible Asset Market Value Study, 2017
study by Ocean Tomo
in remote learning and videoconferencing
technolog y.
e market for apps, on Android and
iOS, is also very strong, says Gervas Wall of
boutique IP firm Deeth Williams Wall LLP
in Toronto. "ere's a lot of activity in fairly
small projects like that," he says, as building
an app doesn't take much money to develop
compared to developing deep learning,
for example.
ere is also a lot of development activity
in the financial sector, on security systems
and cybersecurity, he says. "My clients
. . . are much more concerned with having
a system that manages health records
and allows those to be distributed over
different systems yet maintains a high level
of security."
As well, he adds, "You're seeing a lot more
use of distributed communication; everyone
is doing things outside of the office, [which]
inherently makes your system more vulner-
able," with hackers exploiting employees'
work-from-home vulnerabilities.
Tech IP companies are also working
in the electro-chemical field, in quantum
computing, optics and many other fields,
says Manning.
• 83 PER CENT from
tangible assets in
1975
• 84 PER CENT from
intangible assets in
2015
